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Red Sox left-hander Garrett Crochet made his spring debut on Sunday afternoon against the Blue Jays at JetBlue Park.<\/p>\n
The southpaw went 1 2\/3 innings, throwing 27 pitches, just south of the team-imposed 30-pitch limit. Crochet struck out three hitters and walked a batter in the first inning.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood first inning,\u201d said Crochet. \u201cIt was the first time with fans. I feel like I was rushing a little bit. But even still, I feel like my stuff played really well. I threw a sweeper for a double, but I like the shape, so I\u2019m really happy with that. And the cutter was good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crochet worked around three hits in the second inning along with recording his fourth and final strikeout of his outing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was nice getting out there, getting some real game action,\u201d Crochet said on the\u00a0NESN<\/em>\u00a0broadcast. \u201cA lot to work on, but some good takeaways from today.\u201d<\/p>\n The Red Sox have the radar gun on the Jumbotron turned off to begin the spring; it\u2019s unclear how hard Crochet was throwing in his outing on Sunday. There was no doubt his fastball looked elite, and he showed glimpses of what he can become with his pitch-mix; he just needs to consistently stay in the strike zone.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you look at the splits in my career, 1-0 to 0-1, it\u2019s a difference of like 20 percent walk rate and 20 percent strikeout rate. So, just getting to 0-1 is huge. It\u2019s very simple, but it pays huge dividends,\u201d Crochet said.<\/p>\n New infielder Alex Bregman went 3-for-3 in his spring debut and was able to watch Crochet\u2019s performance from the hot corner on Sunday. The two-time World Series champion came away impressed by his new teammate.<\/p>\n \u201c(He) looked great,\u201d Bregman told reporters. \u201cPunched out the side in the first. His stuff is electric. Just in facing him over the past few years, he\u2019s been fun to watch and difficult to face. Glad I\u2019m on his team.\u201d<\/p>\n With Crochet\u2019s first spring start in the books, he is going to look to build off the outing and continue to work on the goals set forth from his pitching coach Andrew Bailey, who would like to see him achieve.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of great stuff so far,\u201d Crochet said of his relationship with Bailey since joining the organization. \u201cI\u2019d like to keep it behind the scenes, but it\u2019s keeping it as simple as throwing first-pitch strikes. Really, just making sure I put myself in good counts. When looking at my splits in all of my years in the major leagues combined, the 0-1 vs. the 1-0 is very drastic. That\u2019s really the main thing I\u2019m trying to capitalize right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Please enable cookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"\n