Josh Beckett
Josh Beckett
Joshua Patrick Beckettis an American former professional baseball pitcher. A three-time Major League BaseballAll-Star, he played for the Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox, and the Los Angeles Dodgers...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth15 May 1980
CitySpring, TX
crucial easy game left locked
This ain't locked up for anybody. Every game is crucial from now on. There's not an easy game left for us.
execute head help nice straight team win
Just another game. I've got to go out there and help my team win the game. But it's nice to come home. I've got to just keep my head on straight and execute pitches, and that's my whole thing. Nothing else.
easier experience guess means situation success time
I think experience means a little something, ... I guess being there in (crunch) time makes it not easier, but it makes it easier to look back on something and say, 'Hey, I've had success in this situation before.'
jack knee taken
Jack was right, ... He should have taken me over his knee and spanked me.
innings last next pitches point spring threw
Last year, I threw so much in spring training, at this point I had 12 or 13 innings under my belt. It was ridiculous. I'm excited. I threw 60 pitches already, how many more do I have to have? Seventy-five or 80 in my next start, and from there I can go to 100, really.
fired heard stealing
I was kind of fired up about my situation, and it was escalated when I heard they were stealing pitches, and that's my fault,
against far few five guy pitching six
Pitching against a guy like (Zambrano), you can't give up five or six runs. You just can't do it. He's going to have a day every once in a while where he does, but they're going to be few and far between.
builds pitch situation trying
I always prided myself in those situations, trying to get out of them. It builds a lot of character, to pitch yourself into that situation and get yourself out.
barry
He's Barry Bonds. There's nothing else you can really say.
obviously shame
He was here for so long, it's a shame this is how it has to end. Obviously something was really bugging him.
enjoy hit home shot steal sure week
He can't even give me a week to enjoy my home run. He has to hit to a shot in the upper deck. He sure can steal the show, can't he?
careful hits home reap
He does that after Carlos hits a home run. I'll just say this: You've got to be a little more careful in those situations. You reap what you sow.
baseball beginning cake eat explain fun golf jokes next regular six spring training
Spring Training is just a fun time. I really don't know how to explain it. Everyone's got new jokes and everyone is having fun with each other. You get to have your cake and eat it, too. You get to have a life. During the regular season, you don't because it's all day long -- baseball is at the end of the day. But here it's at the beginning of the day and then, with me, I'm going to go out and play golf every day for the next six weeks.
difficult hard
That can become a distraction, ... If you don't get it out of the way, it's difficult to concentrate on what you need to concentrate on. I know it's been hard for him.