Red Sox ace has MLB playoff disaster pitching first game in months

Yet when Boston Red Sox manager Chad Tracy summoned Garrett Crochet with the teams' season hanging in the balance in Game 2 of the AL wild card series , it went very, very bad.

Like many of Tracy's decisions in this two-game set, inserting Crochet in a two-run game in the sixth backfired - and effectively ended their season.

Crochet struck out the first batter he faced, but a wild pitch enabled Spencer Jones to reach first base. Then, a stolen base, a throwing error, a solid George Lombard Jr. single, a seeing-eye hit from Jazz Chisholm Jr. and a bunt single by Trent Grisham and, well, game over?