BOSTON – The corks stayed in the champagne bottles, and the champagne bottles stayed hidden away – though still on ice.With a chance to clinch a playoff berth in their sights, the Red Sox will have to wait at least one more day, as they fell to the Indians last night, 4-3, at Fenway Park, in front of 37,828. Josh Beckett, who went six innings, giving up four runs on seven hits and a walk, striking out six, dropped to 12-10. He added a wild pitch and three hit batters to his line, the first time in his career he’s hit that many batters in an outing. Cleveland starter Zack Jackson, obtained in the trade that sent pitcher C.C. Sabathia to Milwaukee earlier this season, picked up his first big-league win, improving his record to 1-3.Beckett, threw 31 pitches in the second inning, allowing a double to Ben Francisco, then hitting Ryan Garko and Kelly Shoppach, and walking Asdrubal Cabrera for the Indians’ first run, all with two outs, before striking out Grady Sizemore.”A couple of innings, he ran into periods of three, four hitters where he just lost his command,” said manager Terry Francona. “Other than that, I though he was real good.”Beckett didn’t entirely agree with his manager’s assessment.”I don’t think I had control difficulties,” he said. “One guy had body armor on the whole left side of his body. Get 1-2 on him and he leans over the plate and it hits him in his elbow pad. I guess guys are just going to do that when you get 1-2. I don’t think that pitch was that far off the plate. It is what it is. I had two more batters to get one out. I couldn’t get it done.”The Indians did the bulk of their damage in the fifth, sending eight batters to the plate, scoring three runs. Cabrera opened the inning with a single to center, went to second on Sizemore’s groundout, and scored on Carroll’s single to center. Carroll advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Shin-Soo Choo’s single to center. Travis Hafner’s groundout to Bailey at first scored Choo, who had advanced to third on Jhonny Peralta’s ground-rule double.”He kind of battled all day, actually, for him,” catcher Jason Varitek said. “He didn’t have a real good feel from the get-go. He battled just to keep it there. Some balls fell in for them at the right time and some balls landed in the right places, to Josh’s misfortune. (But) he kept us in the game. We presented ourselves with a good chance in the ninth and we didn’t do it.”The Sox left a total of 12 runners on base, including two in the ninth, with Kevin Youkilis at third and Jason Bay on second, when Jed Lowrie struck out on a 91-mph fastball from Jensen Lewis, Lowrie’s third strikeout of the game.The Sox saw a potential rally killed in the sixth inning, on one of the stranger plays of the season. With two outs, Bay on second and Jason Varitek on first, Jeff Bailey scorched a grounder down the third-base line. But a play that looked like it might score at least one run left Bay scrambling, in vain, for safety. The ball hit the third-base umpire, crew chief Gerry Davis, in the leg and never made it to the outfield. Bay, rounding third, slammed on the brakes, attempting to get back to the base. But as Bay was returning to third, Varitek was attempting to advance to the base. Caught in a rundown, Bay was tagged out, snuffing the rally.According to Major League Baseball rule 5.09(f), if a ball hits an umpire after it has passed an infielder, the ball is in play.”I don’t know really what happened,” said Bailey, who was credited with a single on the play. “I tried to look it over on the replay but I couldn’t see anything.”I didn’t know the rule. I hit the ball and I knew it was fair, and I thought it was going to kick off the side wall and come back and we’d at least get one. As I rounded first, I saw (Indians third baseman Jamey) Carroll going after the ball and I thought it couldn’t kick back that far. So I asked the second-base umpire and he said it hit the third-base umpire.”The rule is funny because if the ball gets past the