It happened on, of all things, a curveball to Kevin Millar . While throwing the pitch, in the fourth inning, Josh Beckett felt a piece of skin underneath the pad on his right middle finger tear away. He threw eight more pitches in the inning, getting Millar on a pop to Julio Lugo and Jay Gibbons on a grounder to ... (Full article: 950 words)

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