Former Red Sox pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd revealed in an interview Wednesday that he was under the influence of cocaine in "two-thirds" of the games he pitched and that teammates were aware of it. Appearing on WBZ NewsRadio to promote his forthcoming autobiography, "They Call Me Oil Can: My Life in Baseball," Boyd said of his cocaine use: "Oh yeah, at every ballpark. There wasn't one ballpark that I probably didn't stay up all night, until 4 or 5 in the morning, and the same thing is still in your system. It's not like you have time to go do it while in the game, which I had done that. "Some of the best games I've ever, ever pitched in the major leagues, I stayed up all night; I'd say two-thirds of them. 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 wasn't doing anything that hundreds of ballplayers weren't doing at the time, because that's how I learned it." Boyd pitched in the majors from 1982 to '91, spending eight of those seasons with Boston (he also played for the Montreal Expos and Texas Rangers). He was 78-77 in his career with a 4.04 ERA. Read more: http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story...tcher-oil-boyd-used-cocaine-frequently-career
