Red Sox beat Yankees in 10th after Aaron Judge spoils Garrett Crochet's shutout

Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald on Jun 13, 2025

Published in Baseball

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BOSTON — Aaron Judge is without question among the most dominant players of his generation, and this season the New York Yankees superstar has been hitting at an absurd clip.

He offered yet another reminder of his greatness Friday, when he got off the mat after three humbling at bats and leveled Garrett Crochet with a breathtaking knockout blow.

After being struck out by Crochet in six straight at bats dating back to last weekend at Yankee Stadium, Judge spoiled Crochet’s bid for his first career complete-game shutout by smashing a moonshot of a home run to tie the game at 1-1 in the top of the ninth.

It was as deflating a moment as the Red Sox have had all season, but the fans wound up going home happy anyway.

With two on and two outs in the bottom of the 10th, Carlos Narvaez smashed a walk-off double off the Green Monster to give the Red Sox a thrilling 2-1 win. In doing so he gave Boston its first three-game winning streak since late April and continued the club’s recent June surge.

Prior to the home run, the heavyweight battle between Crochet and Judge was looking as lopsided as they come.

Their first showdown in the top of the first was competitive, with Judge working a full count before Crochet blew him away with a fastball. The second at-bat in the fourth was a completely different story, as Crochet carved up Judge on three straight pitches and froze him looking on a fastball up and in.

For the third faceoff in the sixth, Crochet dug deep and found a little extra. The Red Sox ace finished the at-bat with his two hardest pitches of the season to that point, including a 99-mph heater that got Judge swinging.

At that point Judge was 0 for 6 with six strikeouts against Crochet, twice as many strikeouts as he’s recorded against any other pitcher this season.

With one out in the top of the ninth it looked as if Crochet might have Judge on the ropes again. The big Red Sox left-hander dialed it up even more and hit 100 mph on the radar gun twice, surpassing his previous season high from the prior at-bat. The first of those Judge fouled off, and the second he took inside for a ball to work a full count. Finally, Crochet went to the fastball again down and in, but this time Judge didn’t miss, obliterating the ball 115.5 mph off the bat and sending it 443 feet into the night, well clear of the Green Monster.

It was a difficult end to a brilliant evening for Crochet.

Prior to Judge’s home run the closest New York came to doing any kind of damage against Crochet came in the top of the fifth, when an error and a single gave the Yankees men at first and third with nobody out. Crochet responded by striking out the next two men he faced before escaping the jam by forcing Paul Goldschmidt into an inning-ending groundout.

He finished his night with a career-high 8 1/3 innings, allowing one run on four hits and a walk while striking out seven.

Offensively the Red Sox didn’t do much for most of the game. Trevor Story led off the second with a single and stole second base, setting the table for Ceddanne Rafaela’s go-ahead RBI knock. That was the only significant offense the club managed against Yankees left-hander Ryan Yarbrough, who allowed one run over 4 2/3 innings before being lifted in the bottom of the fifth to avoid facing an unfavorable pocket of right-handed hitters for a third time.

The Red Sox stranded runners at first and second in the fifth and left the bases loaded in the eighth. Failing to capitalize ultimately proved consequential and the game went to extra innings.

Narvaez quickly gave his team a boost in the top of the 10th when he threw out Anthony Volpe trying to steal third. The Yankees shortstop was initially ruled safe but was called out on replay, resulting in the extra-innings ghost runner being erased. A second replay went against New York later in the inning when a DJ LeMahieu foul ball call was upheld. That prompted Yankees manager Aaron Boone to object from the dugout, leading to his being ejected.

Despite the disruptions in play, Garrett Whitlock threw a clean 1-2-3 inning to keep it 1-1 leading to the bottom of the 10th. Boston then moved ghost runner David Hamilton to third on a groundout by Jarren Duran, and Narvaez took care of the rest to give Boston its fifth win in six games.