The Red Sox lost another piece of their rotation when it was announced Wednesday that Joe Kelly would be shut down for the season. Kelly was knocked out of the game in the third inning of his last outing with tightness in his right shoulder, prompting the team to send him back to Boston for more tests.
This throws a wrench in the team’s plans, as the Red Sox had hoped to use a six-man rotation for the remainder of the season in order to help manage the innings of Henry Owens and Eduardo Rodriguez.