The term “skid’’ seemed like a bit much to the Red Sox. Manager John Farrell took a long pause when he heard it. Center fielder Mookie Betts tried to fight back a slight chuckle.

For just the second time this season, the Sox were carrying three straight losses into a game. They had not let a losing streak get any further out of hand this season. They didn’t see this one getting any worse either.

“We’ve done a pretty good job this year of putting stops to those little skids and being able to turn the page on that,’’ said Travis Shaw following the Red Sox’ 6-4 win over the Blue Jays on Saturday at Fenway Park.

They were confident in Steven Wright being the stopper, knowing that almost every time he’s taken the mound since last July, they could pencil him in for a quality start.

“He’s done it multiple times this year,’’ Farrell said. “If he goes out and he throws strikes as he’s done for the better part of this season, we’re probably in pretty good shape.’’

Wright had confidence in an offense that’s only scored two runs or fewer in back-to-back games once this season.

“I feel like every time we go out there, you get used to them putting up five, six, seven runs every game,’’ Wright said. “They don’t take any at-bats off.

“Regardless if we’re winning or losing, they go up there and they grind it out and when you do that, when you’re locked in every pitch, you fight off the good pitches and, when they get a pitch to hit, they drive it. It’s fun to watch. It kind of gives you a little bit of a cushion knowing that we’ve got such a good offense that it’s just a matter of one inning they can just explode and put up a five spot.’’

Wright gave the Sox five solid innings with a knuckleball so fidgety that, at times, it made him his own worst enemy. The Sox shook off the shackles that R.A. Dickey put on them Friday and cranked out double-digit hits for the major-league leading 36th time in 56 games.

The Sox put the breaks on their skid before it became a legitimate one. It also led to a comparison that may be premature, but also perceptive: When the Sox won the World Series in 2013, they never lost more than three straight games. Flashing back to his first season in the majors, Xander Bogaerts could see some common threads.

“It’s kind of a similar team,’’ Bogaerts said. “We have a great bond, great chemistry going on right now. We’re having a lot of fun as a group.’’

That team, like this year’s group, also had the most potent offense in baseball. The 2013 team led the majors with 853 runs. But this year’s team’s already scored 332.

“It boils down to getting contributions up and down the lineup,’’ Farrell said. “Not being solely reliant on the middle of the order, top of the order. We’re getting contributions throughout. When you can take the approach that we are — and that’s for our hitters not to think that they have to be the hero inside of any one inning but to play your part, pass the baton as we get through the lineup — that’s allowed us to score the number of runs that we are.’’

For the 12th time in the past 14 games, the Sox put up at least five runs. Xander Bogaerts went 3 for 4 with a pair of runs. Mookie Betts went 2 for 5 with two RBIs. Travis Shaw snapped a streak of five straight games without an RBI, going 2 for 4 with an RBI single.

They got on the board in the second when Blake Swihart stroked an RBI single off Jays ace Marcus Stroman in the second inning and added cushion in the third on a two-run single by David Ortiz.

On a day when Wright’s knuckleball was at its most unpredictable, there were points when that was a tricky proposition. Wright’s five innings of work was his second shortest of the season. He burned through 111 pitches, giving up three hits and five walks with three strikeouts.

Even though he allowed three runs, none of them went in the books as being earned, as his ERA fell to 2.29.

Three passed balls gave the Blue Jays their first three runs. One moved Michael Saunders into scoring position in the fourth inning, and Wright paid for it when Justin Smoak lined a single to right field. The Sox got the run back in the bottom of the inning on an RBI single by Betts that gave the Sox a 4-1 lead.

An inning later, Wright found himself in trouble again.

Wright had runners on first and second with two outs, and he was ahead 0 and 2 on Saunders. He went to his knuckleball to put Saunders away, but it skipped off the glove of Ryan Hanigan for a passed ball as both runners moved into scoring position.

Wright went back to it on the next pitch, and Saunders whiffed, but it got away from Hanigan again.

While Hanigan chased down the ball trying to get Saunders at first, Wright got caught staring at the play. Ryan Goins scored easily from third, while Jose Bautista, realizing Wright wasn’t covering the plate, raced around from second.

“It’s my fault,’’ Wright said. “That’s something I need to pay attention to. One run should’ve scored, but not two. That’s my fault. I should’ve been able to be over at home to cover it.’’

After holding the Jays to two hits through the first four innings, Wright was in a legitimate jam. But he made sure the inning didn’t get any messier. After walking Edwin Encarnacion, he got Smoak to pop to third to get out of the inning.

Matt Barnes, Junichi Tazawa, and Craig Kimbrel (13th save) combined to clamp down on the Jays the rest of the game, giving the Sox four innings of one-hit, one-run ball.

“I feel like [the bullpen’s] been battling all year,’’ Wright said. “They’ve been coming in and doing their best out there and today they were able to execute and it’s been great for them to come in and get the job done.’’

The Sox improved their record to 14-4 in their last 18 home games, improved to 27-2 when leading after six innings, and put the mini-skid behind them. And if that feels familiar to few years ago, Farrell said he’ll take it.

“If that’s the similarity,’’ Farrell said, “we’ll sign up for that right now.’’

Julian Benbow can be reached at jbenbow@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @julianbenbow.