Injuries piled up everywhere you looked — in both the rotation and in the lineup.
From Jacoby Ellsbury to Hideki Okajima to Jeremy Hermida, key members of Terry Francona‘s roster were lost for extended periods of time.
Although the squad hung in there thanks to gutsy season-long performances by Adrian Beltre, Marco Scutaro and Clay Buchholz, among others, the team failed to make the playoffs and took third place in the AL East.