Red Sox P Beckett admits to 'lapses in judgment'

Boston Red Sox righthander Josh Beckett accepted some of the blame for the September collapse that caused the team to make the playoffs. Beckett criticized his own performance - he gave up six runs apiece in his final two starts vs. Baltimore - and admitted to "lapses in judgment." “The bottom line is my last two starts. They just weren’t that good," Beckett said. "I’m not saying we didn’t make mistakes because we made mistakes in the clubhouse, but the biggest mistakes I made was not pitching well vs. Baltimore. "I was prepared to pitch every time I went out there. I just didn’t execute pitches when I needed to.” Following the September swoon in which the Red Sox coughed up a 9 1/2-game lead, reports circulated out of Boston that Beckett, Jon Lester and other pitchers drank beer and eat fried chicken in the clubhouse while their teammates were on the field. “I think for me - I can only speak for myself - I think that we had lapses in judgment. I had ...