How Red Sox's Garrett Crochet Explained Blow-Up Start Against Twins
The Boston Red Sox ace allowed 11 runs on Monday.
How Red Sox's Garrett Crochet Explained Blow-Up Start Against Twins originally appeared on NESN . Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Garrett Crochet tried to make sense of Monday's nightmarish outing.
The Boston Red Sox ace got shelled for 11 runs (10 earned) in a jarring 13-6 loss to the Minnesota Twins. Crochet had allowed 13 combined runs over his prior eight starts dating back to last year, playoffs included. Crochet tried to explain what wrong against the Twins, per MassLive's Chris Cotillo .
While he doesn't think he was tipping his pitches, he believes the opposition guessed his plan. "What I think happened is that they scouted the same way that I do and looked at what pitches they don’t slug against, as far as from a fastball standpoint: is it the sinker, the four-seamer or the cutter? Then they were ready for that pitch," Crochet said on Friday.
"It happened so fast that I was never able to even realize, ‘Hey, maybe this is what they’re doing here. ’ It was on so many different pitch types, too. " Crochet's average fastball velocity dipped to 94.