Sonny Gray threw live batting practice and Garrett Crochet’s MRI returned clean, offering the Boston Red Sox a pair of encouraging injury updates that could stabilize the club’s pitching picture in the near term.
Gray, who has been recovering from a recent strain, said the live BP session felt like “a good volume.” He emphasized that the time off was not prolonged enough to leave his body “left behind,” and credited being self-aware about the strain for helping him manage the recovery. “The good part about this was when it happened, just being self-aware that, ‘Hey, there was an issue. You did have a strain,’ which I knew. Fortunately, it wasn’t something where you just have to sit there and completely rest and not get on your feet for a couple of weeks or whatever,” Gray said.
The live BP session marks a clear step in Gray’s ramp-up process after the strain was identified. While the team has given only limited public details about the severity or precise timetable, Gray’s comments suggest he has maintained enough throwing consistency that the interruption did not set back his overall preparation. Such throwing progress typically precedes bullpen sessions of increased intensity and, eventually, a return to a scheduled start.
Crochet’s MRI coming back clean removes an immediate medical concern for the left-hander, whose availability had been in question while the club sought imaging to rule out structural damage. A negative MRI generally means the team will proceed with conservative measures — rest, treatment, and monitored throwing — before deciding whether to clear a player for game action. The clean scan should at least speed that evaluation and ease the Red Sox’s short-term planning.
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Taken together, the updates are timely for Boston. The club has had intermittent injury issues among its pitchers, and these developments reduce the likelihood of extended absences for two arms who figure into the pitching mix. Neither update commits the Red Sox to a specific timeline for returns, and both pitchers will be monitored closely as they ramp back up in intensity and innings.
Coaching staff and medical personnel typically use live BP and imaging results as key checkpoints before advancing a player through a structured return-to-play protocol. For Gray, the next steps will likely include controlled bullpen sessions and live batting-practice work with a fuller pitch mix; for Crochet, the clean MRI opens the door to gradual throwing progress rather than further diagnostic delay. The organization will weigh those steps against its roster needs and upcoming schedule.
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These positive signs arrive as the Red Sox look to maintain rotation depth and bullpen flexibility. While neither update guarantees immediate game availability, both lower the short-term injury risk and give Boston reason for cautious optimism about its pitching health moving forward.
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