Kelly placed on DL with shoulder injury

BOSTON — Red Sox right-hander Joe Kelly couldn’t get loose throughout his abbreviated outing against the Rays on Tuesday night at Fenway Park and was placed on the 15-day disabled list with an impingement in his right shoulder.

Right-hander Noe Ramirez was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket on Wednesday to fill Kelly’s roster spot. In other moves, the Red Sox added righty William Cuevas after option infielder Marco Hernandez to Pawtucket following last night’s game.

Ramirez, 26, returns to Boston for his second major league stint of the season. The right-hander, who made his first Opening Day roster, had appeared in six of the club’s first 12 games before being optioned to Pawtucket following Monday’s game against Toronto.

This was not good news for the Red Sox, who already have one starter (Eduardo Rodriguez) on the disabled list. And it was clearly not good news for Kelly, who has battled durability issues the last three seasons.

Kelly recorded just two outs and threw 23 pitches before being forced off the mound in the top of the first inning of a game the Red Sox lost, 3-0, in 10 innings.

“Just a little bit of a pinching type feeling,” Kelly said. “Any time I tried to reach back on the fastball, I felt it.”

The final pitch Kelly threw to strike out Corey Dickerson was a 94-mph fastball — the hardest he registered in the inning.

“That was all I got right there,” said Kelly. “It was as hard as I could throw the ball at that time. It didn’t feel …

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