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</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=subHead vAlign=top colSpan=3>Red Sox place Beckett (back) on disabled list </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=vaLabel colSpan=3>Josh Beckett - S - BOS - May. 19</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=3>Red Sox placed RHP Josh Beckett on the 15-day disabled list with a lower back strain.
Beckett was forced to leave Tuesday's game against the Yankees in the fifth inning due to tightness in his lower back, symptoms that have dogged him for the better part of the past two weeks. Now he'll miss at least two turns in the rotation. Tim Wakefield will take his place in the interim.
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Beckett was forced to leave Tuesday's game against the Yankees in the fifth inning due to tightness in his lower back, symptoms that have dogged him for the better part of the past two weeks. Now he'll miss at least two turns in the rotation. Tim Wakefield will take his place in the interim.
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