Monster mash: Crisp’s HR burns former team

BOSTON — Coco Crisp made his Major League debut with the Indians in 2002. He was a spark plug for the ’05 team that won 93 games and missed the postseason before being traded.

Crisp had his share of playoff heroics after that, just not in Cleveland. He won a World Series in Boston in ’07 and homered off Justin Verlander for Oakland in the American League Division Series in ’12.

Finally, just a few weeks short of his 37th birthday, he had a chance to do something big in October for the team that brought him up. And as he celebrated the Indians’ 4-3 victory over the Red Sox and an ALDS sweep in a champagne-soaked clubhouse at Fenway Park, Crisp could savor his two-run homer as the eventual difference in Monday night’s game.

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“Sure, it’s a little storybook,” Crisp said.

All four of Cleveland’s runs came from the bottom half of its order, fueled in some part by Crisp. With a scoreless game in the fourth, Jose Ramirez hit a leadoff single and Lonnie Chisenhall worked a walk after fouling off a pair of full-count pitches. Crisp laid down a well-placed bunt to move them along for Tyler Naquin.

Naquin, who missed on 34 percent of his swings against fastballs in the regular season according to STATS, whiffed on a first-pitch curve from Buchholz but connected on the second, sending a ground ball through the right side.

“My job’s to at least push one run across,” Naquin said. “I just made sure I …

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