ESPN.com - MLB - Beckett leaves game early with torn skin on finger

River Ave. Blues found this 5/13/2007 on sports.espn.go.com [flag]

BOSTON -- Boston Red Sox starter Josh Beckett , the first seven-game winner in the majors, left after four innings on Sunday with a torn flap of skin on his right middle finger and failed in his attempt to tie a franchise record with a victory in his first eight starts. Beckett allowed two runs in the first inning and left trailing 2-0. He struck out seven and walked two before Kyle Snyder ... [link]

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Who could have foreseen this?
Published 5/13/2007 by Mike A. at River Ave. Blues
... Josh Beckett having trouble with the skin on his finger? You don’t say.

The most fragile fingers in baseball...
Published 5/14/2007 at Sports Bastards
... ...have to belong to Josh Beckett, who was taken out in the fourth inning of what he was hoping to be his eighth win in as many starts. Unfortunately for him, at the time of his removal, the Red Sox were losing to the Orioles. The Orioles, however, in a surprising show of sympathy for Beckett, gave up their 5-0 lead in the 9th, allowing the Sox to win, 6-5.

Beckett, Blister
Published 5/14/2007 by fishfan24 <info@fishstripes.com> at FishStripes: Front Page Posts
... Beckett's Blister Problem

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