Jovani Moran also struggled in last night’s game, and it’ll be his last Red Sox appearance for a while. The reliever was demoted to Worcester after the game, with Brennan Bernardino getting the call back up to the show. Bernardino threw four innings in his brief stint down the pike, allowing one run. (Christopher Smith, MassLive)

In his first season with the Red Sox, Crochet is 13-5 (most wins in the AL) with a big league-high 159⅓ innings, 196 strikeouts (most in the AL), and a 2.43 ERA (just behind Skubal’s 2.42).

Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers won the 2024 AL Cy Young Award, and now, in 2025, he's poised to be one of the top candidates once again for the Cy Young Award. While Boston Red Sox starter Garrett Crochet and Texas Rangers starters Nate Eovaldi and Jacob DeGrom are top contenders,

The 11th overall pick in the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft, Scherzer became a three-time Cy Young Award winner and 2019 World Series champion. In his age-40 season, he's hoping to add another ring with the Toronto Blue Jays.

Paul Skenes may very well be the first (?) to win the NL Cy Young Award with a losing record. He’s 7-9 with 2.13 ERA, 5.7bwar/4.7 fWAR. After leading all NL pitchers in bWAR for essentially the whole season,

With low ERAs essentially the only thing either Eovaldi or Crochet had over Skubal, he has gained an edge in this year's AL Cy Young battle. The 2024 Triple Crown winner is pacing the league in WAR at 5.6 in what may be an even more dominant campaign than his superb 2024 season.

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If there is one difference between Skubal and Skenes, it is that Skubal is in attack mode more than anyone in the league. He leads MLB in throwing his first pitch for a strike at 70% of the time. Overall, he throws strikes 55% of the time -- good for third most in baseball.