{"id":90578,"date":"2025-09-09T21:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=90578"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:48:32","slug":"red-sox-star-pitcher-turns-season-around-with-help-from-shocking-source-in-clubhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=90578","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Star Pitcher Turns Season Around With Help From Shocking Source in Clubhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Red Sox ace credits unexpected teammate that helped him rebound quickly from horrendous start originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Boston Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet just had an amazing start against the Athletics, after having the worst start of his career against the Cleveland Guardians. According to Crochet, the reason for his quick turnaround was thanks to an unexpected teammate.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In an a post-game interview, Crochet revealed catcher Connor Wong was the teammate that helped get him back on track before the game with the A\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0Red Sox call up No. 6 prospect to take Dustin May&#8217; start tonight vs Athletics, push May to IL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig credit to [Connor] Wong. A couple days ago I was talking to him, I was kinda searching, just hadn\u2019t been locating the four-seam [fastball] glove-side, and he kinda got me on practicing the front hip, glove-side sinker to make sure I\u2019m fully getting extended on the pitch, and it got my four-seam back dialed in,\u201d Crochet said.<\/p>\n<p>Crochet is not the only person Wong has helped either. He\u2019s one of the main reasons Aroldis Chapman is having a legendary season, as Wong was the first person to get Chapman to locate his pitches. Using pitch-com, Wong told Chapman the general area to throw, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0Red Sox manager Alex Cora finally gives definitive timeline for Gold Glove Wilyer Abreu&#8217;s return from injury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, Wong has become the personal catcher of the rising ace, Brayan Bello. Since doing that, Bello is having his breakout season. He now has a record of 11-6 with a 3.12 ERA, 114 strikeouts, a WHIP of 1.212 in 152 innings pitched.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully Wong can get his own stats up, as if he can do that, the overall value he brings to the Red Sox could be indispensable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE\u00a0BOSTON RED SOX\u00a0NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Red Sox rookie Kristian Campbell making eyebrow-raising start in new position in AAA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Red Sox insider proposes $150 million way to keep superstar Alex Bregman in Boston for a long time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Red Sox&#8217; Aroldis Chapman legendary season continues with him breaking MLB, his own records<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crochet isn&#8217;t the only guy he helped either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":90579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[632,1478,47,757,285,729,1627,481,198],"class_list":["post-90578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-aroldis-chapman","tag-athletics","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-brayan-bello","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-connor-wong","tag-dustin-may","tag-garrett-crochet","tag-wilyer-abreu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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