Updated: September 26, 2011, 5:13 PM ET

By Gordon Edes
ESPNBoston.com
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NEW YORK -- Boston ballplayer John Lackey was highly emotive after Sun night's hammy 7-4, 14-inning Red Sox win, but his emotional land had lowercase to do with the outcome of the game.

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Instead, Lackey lashed discover at the media because of a book communication he said he conventional from a member of the media most 30 transactions before his move that he claimed was "personal" in nature and "over the line," though he offered no details. The Red Sox issued a evidence on the concern Monday.

"John Lackey is handling with a deeply individualized kinsfolk issue, and it is digit the Red Sox do not see is pertinent for unstoppered debate," it read. "The Red Sox letter that Evangelist and Krista's concealment be respected. The Red Sox will not hit some increase comment."

Lackey's state Sun was manifest from the prototypal question, when he took omission to a questioner describing a three-run prototypal play as "rocky."

"There was digit hard-hit ball in that stony prototypal inning," said Lackey, who has been widely abused for his pitching during a flavour in which his 6.41 ERA is the maximal ever for a Red Sox authorised who has tangled more than 150 innings. "A connector ball that went by somebody. Let's be honest, digit time. Whatever."

Lackey recovered from the prototypal play to movement fivesome unsuccessful innings until the seventh, when he was raised after gift up a leadoff azygos to Eric Chavez, which finally led to a ordinal run. Television cameras caught Lackey cursing from the construction to the dugout, ostensibly status with trainer Terry Francona's selection to vanish him. But by pitching into the seventh, Lackey had offered a recognize fortuity from a debase in which Red Sox starters had pitched fivesome innings or less in sextet of the terminal heptad games and 15 nowadays this month.

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Christopher Pasatieri/Getty ImagesJohn Lackey said he conventional a book communication from a media member on a individualized concern that was "over the line."

To a discourse most what category of increase the aggroup conventional from his try Sunday, he offered a terse, "We meet necessary to intend a game."

But when asked by archangel Silverman of the Boston Herald, "How do you conceive you pitched," Lackey veered soured matter in a bounteous way.

"Let me verify you the truth," Lackey said. "Thirty transactions before the mettlesome I got a book communication on my radiophone sound from digit of you, somebody in the media, conversation most individualized stuff. I shouldn't modify hit to be stagnant up here handling with it.

"I'm movement here, perception to music. I don't undergo who got my sound number, but that's over the line.

"Anything added you poverty to speech about?"

Last winter, it was reportable that Lackey's wife, Krista, was undergoing communication for boob cancer, and after a specially wrinkled move in May, Lackey blurted, "Everything in my chronicle sucks correct now."

Before gathering with reporters Sun night, Lackey had a short but enlivened communicating with a edifice authorised most the book communication and how his sound sort had gotten out. There were indications Sun period that a celebrity/gossip website had dispatched him the book message, but that could not be confirmed. The website TMZ afterward publicised an component most Lackey's wedlock on weekday farewell at 3:55 a.m. ET.

When asked if he suspected anyone stagnant in face of him, Lackey said, "I'll encounter out."

He also was asked if the book communication had inattentive him on the mound.

"I don't conceive I've got to care with this," he said.

Even after the discourse poor up, Lackey continuing to rage. "I can't conceive … Any of you who would intend into that is feat to hit a earnest problem."

Gordon Edes covers the Red Sox for ESPNBoston.com.

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