"Despite another scare on a wet mound for Josh Beckett, the Red Sox right-hander thinks his left knee should be fine in time for him to pitch in the All-Star Game on Tuesday in Phoenix.

Beckett, who allowed three runs in five innings on Friday night in a 10-3 win over the Orioles, suffered a mild hyperextension of the knee on his 51st pitch. That came on a 1-0 offering to Baltimore's Robert Andino, with one out in the fifth.

"It's a little tender. It's not too bad, though," Beckett said after throwing 68 pitches. "I think everything is going to be fine. I've done this before playing basketball when I was younger. I'm what they call loose-jointed. When things go a little bit too far, it scared me more than anything."

Beckett finished the inning with a strikeout of Vlad Guerrero with two men on.

"He slipped on the mound, and he hyperextended his knee a little bit," manager Terry Francona said. "Mild. His stability is fine. We hopefully dodged a little bit of a bullet there. We saw him do that in Spring Training a few years back, and he hurt his back. Again, we got him out strictly for precautionary reasons. He could have pitched. We didn't think it was a good thing to do.""