Bombs away: Red Sox blast 5 HR, Crochet goes 7 in 10-2 win over Blue Jays

If the Red Sox could draw up the ideal competition it would possibly look a lot like Tuesday night s - series opener accomplishment in Toronto They received seven innings from their new ace Garrett Crochet and definitively gave him the run help he deserved And they didn t make a single error Crochet came into the series leading the rotation in deep outings averaging innings over his first six starts of the season but tied with Tanner Houck for the lowest runs of encouragement per competition The league average is The Red Sox had scored a combined runs in his six starts Tuesday night was a different story In a performance that would make David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez proud the Boston bats blasted five home runs to knock Blue Jays starter Bowden Francis out of the event after just three innings The Red Sox led off each of Francis innings with a homer leadoff man Jarren Duran went yard to begin the contest followed by Kristian Campbell and Rafael Devers At mph Devers third home run in four games was the hardest hit of the tournament by far I feel good I feel like we re playing very good baseball Devers recounted reporters via translator Defensively the pitchers are doing their job the bullpen base-running hitting I think everything is clicking right now Alex Bregman entered the day tied for the American League lead in extra-base hits then homered in the first Doing so also extended his hitting streak to nine games Campbell and Devers also have four-game hitting streaks Before Tuesday Manny Ramirez was the only competitor in franchise history to collect hits homer at least five times and post a on-base percentage within his first games with the Red Sox Bregman just made it a club of two He s a complete hitter manager Alex Cora narrated reporters of his new third baseman Roughly weeks after Bregman s arrival set the wheels in motion for Devers to lose his third-base job there seem to be no hard feelings between the two stars On Tuesday night Devers called Bregman a very good hitter and great person He s one of the best teammates Devers revealed I feel obviously secure hitting in front of him In the third Wilyer Abreu hit the club s MLB-leading th three-run homer no other unit has more than six At feet his homer tied Devers for the farthest hit of the competition Aside from Ceddanne Rafaela who was hitless in the contest every member of the lineup contributed to the crew s hits Abreu and Bregman led the way with three apiece and Campbell and Triston Casas each collected two Bregman and Campbell both have multi-hit games tied for the squad lead Earlier in the year we kind of were pressing a little bit weren t coming through but we ve kind of taken a deep breath and started playing better baseball Bregman stated NESN s Jahmai Webster The Red Sox only struck out five times They also benefited from three walks including Devers adding to his American League-leading total and a hit-by-pitch Trevor Story They only struck five times The deja vu continued too Two days after Duran became the first athlete to straight-steal home since Jacoby Ellsbury in April of that year Abreu s homer made Tuesday the first event in which the Red Sox homered five times within the first three innings since Sept After issuing a career-worst five walks in his previous outing Crochet bounced back in a big way Making his final start of the month he went seven innings and held the Blue Jays to two earned runs on four hits three walks and six strikeouts on pitches strikes Aside from a two-run blast by Vladimir Guerrero Jr the Blue Jays couldn t do a lick of damage against the Sox southpaw or the bullpen By the end of his outing Crochet had lowered his ERA to and reached strikeouts second-most in the American League Just felt like I was competitive all the way through Crochet reported reporters postgame I know I still had the three walks but they re not like my walks in the starts past they were competitive all the way through Luis Guerrero pitched a - - eighth he hasn t allowed an earned run in his first big-league games tied for the second-longest streak to begin a Red Sox career and lefty Brennan Bernardino slammed the door with a - - ninth After taking a four-frame break from scoring the Red Sox tacked on several insurance Duran drove in run No with an RBI groundout in the eighth and Campbell s RBI double and Casas RBI groundout plated a pair in the ninth to reach the double-digit threshold The only truly memorable moments for the Blue Jays came courtesy of their ballpark special hot dogs and their Gold Glove center fielder Activated from the injured list earlier in the day Daulton Varsho made a jaw-dropping play to rob Duran of a big hit Racing toward the wall in center Varsho fell to the ground barrel-rolled and reached out his glove behind his back to make the catch at the last moment That was incredible that was one of the best catches I ve ever seen in my life Bregman explained reporters I wish he wouldn t have because it would ve been a nice triple for Jarren but you got to tip your hat to him there That was an unbelievable play Over a century of baseball thousands of games played each season and fans can still see something new