Red Sox Ace Puts Concerns to Bed With Latest Response

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00:00Red Sox ace puts concerns to bed with latest response.

00:04For a moment, Boston had reason to worry.

00:07Garrett Crochet, the Red Sox's breakout ace, had shown rare cracks in the armor over his last handful of outings,

00:14capped by a September 2nd start against Cleveland, where he surrendered four home runs in six innings.

00:20Add in a shaky August appearance in Houston, and the alarms were starting to sound.

00:24But on Monday night in Sacramento against the A's, Crochet slammed the door on any talk of a late-season unraveling.

00:32Dominant again, the 25-year-old lefty threw seven scoreless innings, allowing just three hits, striking out ten, and walking nobody.

00:41Out of his 29 starts this year, he's given up more than two earned runs just five times.

00:47After the win, Crochet admitted he had been scuffling for longer than just the Cleveland and Houston games.

00:52Not even just the last one.

00:54I felt like the last five.

00:56Outside of New York, I was kind of scuffling, he told reporters.

01:00From the outside, it's easy to look at the Cleveland game as a blip.

01:04But I was pretty pissed.

01:05I couldn't really pinpoint where it went wrong.

01:08The turnaround, he explained, came from simplifying.

01:11It was more of a pitch-to-pitch focus.

01:13This pitch, then the next one, Crochet said.

01:16It freed me up a little bit.

01:18It got me out of worrying about three-ball counts, worrying about walks, and worrying about damage.

01:24You can't always make the perfect pitch.

01:26Tonight, I felt like I freed myself up from a lot of that.

01:30There was also a technical fix behind the resurgence.

01:33Crochet credited backup catcher Connor Wong for identifying a mechanical flaw in his delivery.

01:39Practicing the front hip glove-side sinker improved his four-seam fastball's accuracy.

01:44It got my four-seam back, dialed in.

01:47The result?

01:48A smooth, deliberate outing where Crochet said he felt fresh even late into the game.

01:53He executed each pitch with precision and maintained energy throughout, making it through seven innings.

02:00This win is more than just a triumph over a last-place team.

02:03It reassures Boston that their ace is back on track when needed most.