Red Sox ace didn’t look at bad start as a ‘blip,’ then got to work and dominated A’s with 10 Ks

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Garrett Crochet was consistently dominant in his first 23 starts of the season, going 13-4 with a 2.24 ERA while avoiding a true blow-up outing for the first four months of the season. The last six weeks, though, have brought two such occasions .

Crochet’s poor outing in Houston in Houston on August 11 (5 runs in 4 innings) and against Cleveland last week (4 homers, 7 runs in 6 innings) can easily be viewed as inevitable blips over the course of a long, wildly successful. They might be viewed as a sign of Crochet’s workload catching up to him, a theory quickly dismissed by the lefty and anyone else employed by the Red Sox. To Crochet, though, the two outings were simply examples of not hitting his standard.

“From the outside, it’s easy to look it as a blip, bu