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It's an age-old pitching adage: the more pitches you let major league hitters see, the more chance they'll drill them. And like most of those adages, the cliché holds more than a nugget of truth.
The franchise whose 2004 rotation handled 159 of 162 starts, and whose most prominent player on the 2007 DL was Doug Mirabelli, has cleared two dozen transactions in 33 games. On Sunday, they played two men short, with Brandon Moss lost to an emergency appendectomy and David Ortiz to a spot on tendinitis in his still-painful right knee.
To win, it takes breaks, quality play and versatility. Jacoby Ellsbury, who only went into Sunday's lineup when Ortiz was scratched, made a run-saving catch in left field and scored both times he got on base.
(With two more steals, his career-starting streak stands at 20-for-20.)
Kevin Youkilis went to the third spot in Ortiz's absence, knocked three extra-base hits and drove home four.
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