Garrett Crochet shined when the lights were at their brightest on Tuesday in his first postseason start in Game 1 of the American League Wild Card series .

The Red Sox ace dazzled in a 117-pitch performance that included 11 strikeouts and one earned run over 7⅔ innings in Boston’s 3-1 win over the New York Yankees .

“He’s the best pitcher in the game,” Yankees star outfielder Aaron Judge told reporters . “He’s gonna work all his pitches, worked a little more offspeed in there early on. We got the (Anthony) Volpe homer when we got guys on, couldn’t do much after that.”

The Yankees were in control for four innings with a 1-0 lead. Max Fried was cruising as the Red Sox offense struggled to get anything going against him. But after he was removed with one out in the seventh, Nic

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