NEW YORK -- Carlos Rodon watched Garrett Crochet debut as a promising hard-throwing reliever while they were teammates with the Chicago White Sox in 2020 and 2021.

A lot has changed for both left-handers since, as Crochet is now the Boston Red Sox's staff ace and Rodon was an All-Star with the New York Yankees this season.

Crochet dominated Game 1 of the Red Sox's American League wild-card series against the Yankees. Now it's Rodon who will be pitching to prevent New York from being ousted in the best-of-three series on Wednesday.

The Red Sox opened the series by getting a dominant performance from Crochet, who allowed just one run -- on a second-inning homer by Anthony Volpe -- among four hits in 7 2/3 innings. Crochet retired 17 straight after Volpe went deep and threw the last of his

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