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New York, Boston Are Playing Finale On Sunday Night Baseball On ESPN, Will Warren, Garrett Crochet Are Starting, New York Is Looking To Sweep, Boston Is Looking To Salvage Game

New York the team that wears the pinstripes, Boston are playing finale of three game series on Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN, Will Warren, Garrett Crochet are starting.

Where?

On the mound!

Will Warren, Garrett Crochet are are different because Will Warren is a right handed starting pitcher while Garrett Crochet is a left handed starting pitcher!

Will Warren comes into the finale on Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN with Boston record of 8-6 with an earn run average of 4.22 because on Tuesday September 9, 2025 when opposing Detroit in Bronx New York Will Warren took no decision pitching 6.2 innings surrendering 2 hits, 2 earned runs 1 walk while striking out 5 Detroit batters.

Garrett Crochet comes into the e finale on Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN with New York the team that wears the pinstripes with record of 15-5 with an earn run average of 2.57 because on Monday September 8, 2025 when opposing Athletics Garrett Crochet pitched 7.0 innings surrendering 3 hits, 0 earned runs , 0 walks while striking out 10 Athletics batters.

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Though,

Could mother nature prevent New York the team that wears the pinstripes the opportunity from sweeping Boston from Boston the opportunity of salvaging game on Sunday Night Baseball On ESPN from Will Warren, Garrett Crochet from making their starts as scheduled?

There is a possibility of that happening because at first pitch it’s partly cloudy with 19% chance of rain before it becomes partly cloudy with 51% chance of showers an hour following first pitch before it becomes mostly clear with 47% chance at 9:00pm before remains mostly with 40% chance by the time the game is supposed to be over.

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New York the team that wears the pinstripes is a member of the American League East comes into finale of three game series with Boston with record of 83-65 is 3.0 games behind Toronto who is leading the American League East though New York the team that wears the pinstripes won the first two games of the series with Boston including Saturday afternoon’s game 5-3 because Max Fried became the first MLB starting pitcher to collect , pickup his 17th win in 2025 season!

While Max Fried became first MLB pitcher to collect , pick up 17th win he pitched 5.1 innings surrendering 9 hits, 2 earned runs Jazz Chisholm Jr. had big day offensively for New York the team that wears the pinstripes driving in three runs. Jazz Chisholm Jr. first run came when he reached on infield single to Brayan Bello scoring Ben Rice who was first baseman who catches pitchers behind the plate as well in top of 1st inning extending New York the team that wears the pinstripes a 2-0 lead before Jazz Chisholm Jr. would go on to extend New York the team that wears the pinstripes lead 3-0 in top of 3rd inning singling to left scoring captain, right fielder Aaron Judge before Jazz Chisholm Jr. would extend the lead the yet again this time, 4-0 with a home run to right center.

Following Max Fried becoming the first MLB pitcher to collect, pick up 17th win in 2025 season Jazz Chisholm Jr. having big day offensively Jazz Chisholm Jr. had this to say about his team!

We’re the best team in the league,”Any team that thinks they’re better than us, they should know that when we step on the field, we’re coming with relentlessness. We’re coming to step on necks. We’re not here to play around.”We’ve said it all year long: we’ve been playing to everybody else’s level instead of our own level,”We’ve been losing games ourselves; making errors, just having poor at-bats and stuff like that. We finally looked ourselves in the mirror and realized that we’re the team to beat. That’s how we’ve been stepping on the field for the past two weeks.”

All I want to do is come out with a win after the game every day,

Following Max Fried becoming the first MLB pitcher to collect, pick up 17th win in 2025 season Jazz Chisholm Jr. having big day offensively Max Fried who started who pitched 5.1 innings surrendering 2 hits, 2 earned runs while striking out 6 Boston batters had this to say!

Knowing we’re both tight in the standings and I don’t have many opportunities left to go out there and start, I just wanted to make sure I left it all out there,”

According to Bryan Hoch MLB article https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/jazz-chisholm-jr-one-homer-shy-of-30-30-in-yankees-win

Boston comes into the finale with New York the team that wears the pinstripes with record of 81-68 is 5.5 games behind Toronto who is leading the American League East because they lost the first two games of the series including Saturday’s game 5-3 where their offense included three runs . There first run was a home run from third baseman Alex Bregman that got them on scoreboard when he hit home run to right 316 feet in bottom of 5th inning. There second run came in bottom of 6th inning when catcher Connor Wong singled to center scoring third baseman who was right fielder Nate Eaton trimming Boston’s deficit New York the team that wears the pinstripes lead to 4-2 before pinch hitter, left fielder Jarren Duran hit home run to right center 386 feet getting Boston within 4-3. Though, it wasn’t enough as New York the team that wears the pinstripes would get the last laugh as right fielder Cody Bellinger would double to left scoring Aaron Judge.

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Following Boston’s 5-3 loss to New York the team that wears the pinstripes Saturday afternoon third baseman Alex Bregman who hit home run to right 316 getting Boston on scoreboard had this to say!

“Obviously you could [have the temptation to] start swinging harder, trying to do more,”ou can start trying to throw harder and miss over the middle of the plate. I think it's just, slow it down, execute. I think that’s something we have to do a little better job of.”Keep fighting,”Keep working at our craft, and our best baseball is ahead of us.”

Following Boston’s 5-3 loss to New York the team that wears the pinstripes Saturday afternoon starting pitcher Brayan Bello who started who pitched 5.0 innings surrendering 4 hits, 3 earned runs while striking out 4 New York the team that wears the pinstripes had this to say!

We still have a lot of games remaining,”We just need to keep our head up and keep competing, and hopefully everything will be OK.”

Following Boston’s 5-3 loss to New York the team that wears the pinstripes Saturday afternoon in Bronx New York manager Alex Cora had this to say about the month of October!

I think we should stop talking about October, to be honest with you,”here's a lot of stuff going on [in the standings], and we have to play better. I'm not saying we're in a bad spot, but I think we have to wait to see if October is part of this.”

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First pitch is set for 7:10pm from Fenway Park!

The game is going to be televised on ESPN with David Cone, Eduardo Perez , Buster Olney commentating!

Five-time World Series Champion and former Cy Young Award Winner David Cone was named to ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball booth in 2022. He joined Karl Ravech, the fourth-ever voice of Sunday Night Baseball, and veteran analyst, player and coach, Eduardo Pérez, to form ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball team.

In Cone’s 17 years in Major League Baseball, he had a 194-126 record with a 3.46 ERA and 2,668 strikeouts. He won his first World Series title with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1992 and went on to win four with the New York Yankees in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000. In 1999, Cone etched his name into the record books when he pitched the sixteenth perfect game in MLB history.

The Kansas City native was drafted by his hometown team, the Royals, in 1981. He returned to the Royals in 1993, and went on to win the American League Cy Young Award in 1994.

In addition to his position as an analyst on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball, Cone serves as an analyst on the YES Network and hosts a pitching podcast, Toeing the Slab with David Cone.Veteran Major League Baseball player and coach Eduardo Pérez was named to ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball team in 2022. He serves as an analyst on ESPN’s exclusive, national Major League Baseball game of the week alongside five-time World Series Champion David Cone and play-by-play voice Karl Ravech.  

Pérez has been an analyst on the Baseball Tonight: Sunday Night Countdown team and Béisbol Esta Noche on ESPN Deportes, and regularly appeared as an analyst during Monday Night Baseball and Wednesday Night Baseball telecasts. He was previously an analyst at ESPN from 2006 through 2010 and returned to ESPN in 2014.  

Pérez has also been a signature analyst in ESPN’s international MLB game coverage, calling historic games in Cuba, Japan, Puerto Rico and Mexico. He served as an analyst in ESPN’s KBO League 2020 regular season coverage. Pérez has also been an analyst in ESPN’s innovative, data-driven Statcast alternative viewing experiences that surround signature MLB events such as the Home Run Derby and Wild Card game.   

Pérez served as bench coach of the Houston Astros (2013) and hitting coach of the Miami Marlins (2011-12). In 2008, Pérez was named Manager of the Year in the Puerto Rico Baseball League, leading the Leones De Ponce to the league championship. He also managed Colombia in the World Baseball Classic qualifying round in 2013.  

Pérez spent 13 seasons (1993-2006) in the Major Leagues, primarily as a first baseman, for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Tampa Bay Rays, Cleveland Indians and Seattle Mariners. Pérez had his best season in 1997 while with Cincinnati, reaching career highs in home runs (16), RBI (52) and games (106). 

Pérez was drafted in the first round by the Angels in 1991 after leading the Florida State University Seminoles to the College World Series that same season. His father, Tony Pérez, is a Baseball Hall of Famer.  

Robert “Buster” Olney is the reporter for ESPN’s exclusive Sunday Night Baseball telecasts and the host of the popular Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney podcast. He is also a senior writer for ESPN.com. The veteran baseball insider joined ESPN in June 2003 to cover the sport for all ESPN entities, including ESPN Radio, ESPNEWS and SportsCenter.

Olney’s two favorite events he has covered for ESPN are the 2014 and 2016 postseasons. “Particularly,” he said, “the historic performances of Madison Bumgarner.”

Olney began covering baseball in 1989 as the Nashville Banner’s beat reporter for the Triple-A Nashville Sounds.  He later covered the San Diego Padres for the San Diego Union-Tribune (1993 – 1994) and the Baltimore Orioles (Baltimore Sun, 1995 – 1996).  He arrived at ESPN after six years at the New York Times covering the Mets (1997) and the Yankees (1998 – 2001).

Olney realized he wanted to build a career around sports writing when Red Smith, a Pulitzer Prize winning sports columnist for the New York Times, came and spoke at his high school.

“When I was 15, I had just started to figure out that I wasn’t going to be able to play power forward for the Lakers at 5-foot-7 3/8, nor was I going to be the second baseman for the Dodgers,” Olney said. “As Red told stories, it was apparent how much he loved his job—and immediately, I was inspired, because I loved sports, loved to write and possessed a curiosity about people. Within a couple of weeks, I started writing for my high school paper, and knew what I wanted to do.”

Olney has also authored the Times’ bestseller, The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness (HarperCollins 2004), a book about the Paul O’Neill/Tino Martinez Yankees’ dynasty of 1996 – 2001.

Olney also ranked in the Associated Press Game Story Top 10 from 1996 – 1998.

His favorite childhood sports memory comes from a special day with his uncle: “When I was 11 years old, my Uncle Bob arranged for me to see a playoff game at Fenway Park — Game 1 of the American League Championship Series, with Boston’s Luis Tiant on the mound against the dynasty Athletics, 1975,” Olney described. “But the great treat for me was that I got to watch the game sitting next to Uncle Bob’s friend — Pee Wee Reese, who had played for my favorite team, the Dodgers. I have always wished that I knew enough about Pee Wee’s relationship with Jackie Robinson that I had asked him about it. But it was an incredible experience, and I still have the scorecard pages from that day, with Pee Wee’s autograph.”

A native of Randolph Center, VT, Olney graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1988 with a degree in history.

Veteran ESPN commentator Karl Ravech is the voice of Sunday Night Baseball, ESPN’s exclusive, national Major League Baseball game of the week, calling games alongside analysts Eduardo Perez and David Cone and reporter Buster Olney

Ravech joined ESPN in May 1993. His three decades of covering MLB for the network have included hosting ESPN’s studio coverage of the MLB playoffs and World Series since 1995, hosting ESPN’s MLB studio and pre-game show, Baseball Tonight, and serving as play-by-play commentator for Monday Night Baseball and for ESPN’s 2020 KBO League season coverage. He has also been the voice of ESPN’s Home Run Derby telecast since 2017.

Since 2006, Ravech has provided commentary for ESPN and ABC coverage of the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. In 2011, he added the Little League World Series Championship games and the College World Series to his yearly schedule. During the winter, Ravech is a play-by-play commentator on ESPN’s college basketball telecasts and has called the SEC basketball tournament since 2017.

Ravech has also anchored ESPN’s college basketball studio wraps operation. Additionally, in the fall of 2000, Ravech followed Tiger Woods’ quest for the Grand Slam while hosting ESPN’s golf coverage at Pebble Beach, St. Andrews and Valhalla.

In November of 1998, Ravech was playing a pickup game of basketball with friends from ESPN when he noticed a sharp pain in his chest.  After receiving medical attention, the doctor informed Karl he had experienced a heart attack at the age of 33.

“That experience was a wake-up call,” said Ravech.  “Now, through exercise and proper diet, my heart is as strong as a professional athlete. I run every day.  Who knows why these things happen, but it changed me for the better.”

Prior to joining the network, Ravech served as the weekend sports anchor/reporter at WHTM-TV in Harrisburg, Pa. (1990-93).  His assignments included the 1992 Senior U.S. Open golf tournament, Harrisburg Senators (Washington Nationals’ Double-A affiliate), and MLB spring training.  He was nominated for a local Sports Emmy in 1990 and 1991.

From 1987 to 1990, Ravech was employed by WBNG-TV, in Binghamton, N.Y., as a sports anchor/reporter with assignments including the 1988 U.S. Open golf tournament.

Ravech served as the sports director at NewsCenter 7 in Ithaca, N.Y., and as a freelance sports producer for WCVB-TV in Boston (1986-87), while attending college.

Ravech received his Bachelor of Science degree in communications from Ithaca College in 1987. He received his master’s degree in management and leadership in 1990, from SUNY at Binghamton

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Before the game though be sure to watch Baseball Tonight with Kevin Connors, Tim Kurkijan!

Kevin Connors joined ESPN in July 2008 and currently serves as a studio host of college football, college basketball and Major League Baseball. He also is also a host of Baseball Tonight and a SportsCenter anchor, usually seen in nighttime editions. During his time with ESPN, he has handled various college basketball play-by-play assignments, previously hosted Top Rank Boxing on ESPN, as well as the former NBA Coast-to-Coast & NBA Tonight programs.

Connors also hosts a variety of programs on ESPN Radio.

Connors came to ESPN from WCBS-TV in New York, where he served as weekend sports anchor, and WCBS NewsRadio 880 where he handled afternoon drive sports updates. He started his broadcasting career with WRNN-TV, an independent television station serving the New York metropolitan area, where he was sports anchor from 1997-2006 and sports director for eight years.

A five-time New York State Broadcaster’s Association Award winner for Outstanding Sportscast, Connors is a native of Rockville Centre, N.Y., on Long Island. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in television-radio from Ithaca College and was a four-year member of the Ithaca men’s basketball team.

im Kurkjian joined ESPN in March 1998 as both a reporter for Baseball Tonight and a senior writer. Known for his passionate storytelling and insight, he continues to provide analysis through his writing and regular appearances on Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter. Kurkjian is also a staple in ESPN’s Little League World Series coverage, and has served as a regular analyst in the booth, including for Monday Night Baseball and Wednesday Night Baseball.

Kurkjian was named the 2022 BBWAA Career Excellence Award winner, presented annually to a writer “for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.”

The best event he’s covered for ESPN, Kurkjian says, is Game 7 of the 2016 World Series, when the Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time since 1908.

“It was one of the greatest Game 7’s ever played,” he said.

Kurkjian has an extensive background in covering baseball. He was a senior writer for Sports Illustrated from 1989-1997 as well as a reporter for CNN-SI from 1996-1997.

He has authored three books. The latest, I’m Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies came out in May 2016.

Kurkjian believes he was destined for a career around the game.

“Baseball is the only language we spoke in my family growing up,” he said. “My dad was a really good player, my brothers were great college players, this is all we talked about in my house. And I went to Walter Johnson High School, named after the greatest pitcher of all time.”

He began covering baseball as the Texas Rangers beat writer for the Dallas Morning News where he worked from 1981 to 1985. Kurkjian then covered the Baltimore Orioles for the Baltimore Sun beginning in 1986 before moving on to Sports Illustrated in 1989.

His journalism career began with the Washington Star in 1978 following his graduation from the University of Maryland in the same year. He also worked briefly for the Baltimore News American in 1981 prior to covering the Rangers.

When asked about his favorite childhood sports memory, Kurkian shares, “1965. I was eight. I was already hopelessly addicted to the game. We just got our first color TV. Willie Mays, who was already my baseball hero from 3,000 miles away, hit a home run to open the 1965 All-Star game. He had the perfect look to a baseball player: so fast, so strong, so good defensively. I was hooked forever.”

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