The MLB playoffs are here with one Mississippian set to take front and center stage on Tuesday night.

Garrett Crochet, an Ocean Springs native who’s up for this year’s American League Cy Young Award, will get the ball in game one of the Boston Red Sox’s three-game Wild Card series against divisional rival New York Yankees. The game is set to begin at 5:08 p.m. CT and will be broadcast on ESPN.

Crochet is coming off a career-best regular season in which he took the mound 32 times and led the AL with 205 1/3 innings of work. He leads the entire MLB with 255 strikeouts, has a sixth-best 2.59 ERA, and has compiled an 18-5 record along the way.

Heading into his first postseason start, after getting one postseason shot as a reliever during his four seasons with the Chicago White Sox, the 6-fo

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