BOSTON (CBS) Former Red Sox pitcher Dennis Oil Can Boyd admitted on Wednesday that two-thirds of the time he was on the mound, he was under the influence of cocaine.
Oh yeah, at every ballpark. There wasnt one ballpark that I probably didnt stay up all night, until four or five in the morning, and the same thing is still in your system, Boyd told WBZ NewsRadio 1030s Jonny Miller in Fort Myers, Fla. Its not like you have time to go do it while in the game, which I had done that.
Some of the best games Ive ever, ever pitched in the major leagues I stayed up all night; Id say two-thirds of them, said Boyd, who spent eight of his 10 major league seasons with the Red Sox. If I had went to bed, I would have won 150 ballgames in the time span that I played. I feel like my career was cut short for a lot of reasons, but I wasnt doing anything that hundreds of ball players werent doing at the time; because thats how I learned it.