Lancaster has an offday today.

Bartolo Colon was walking around the PawSox clubhouse and will accompany the club to Scranton. Johnson says Colon is on track to work a couple of innings Tuesday. Colon has already been on the DL twice this season, once with a right oblique strain (April 10-May 10) and lower back strain (June 17 to present).

THE HIGHLIGHTS: The Yankees ended a 48-day PawSox stay in first place, including 46 in sole possession of that spot, in the meeting between the International League’s top two teams. Bernie Castro’s single over a drawn-in infield with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the ninth inning ended the game.

KEY TO THE GAME: After getting three straight hits, including Jeff Bailey’s two-run triple in the sixth, the PawSox could not get Bailey in from third with one out. They put runners on second and third with one out in the seventh and stranded them, as well.

PLAY OF THE GAME: Right fielder Sean Danielson and catcher George Kottaras combined to keep the game tied in the bottom of the eighth when Danielson threw out leadoff hitter Brett Gardner at the plate on Juan Miranda’s single.

The Portland Sea Dogs gave the Reading Phillies all the help they needed on Monday night ... almost.

Portland fell behind early and gave up three walks with the bases loaded, but managed to rally for a 6-5 win in 11 innings.

Iggy Suarez singled with one out in the top of the 11th for the Sea Dogs and moved to second on a Bryan Pritz groundout. Jorge Jimenez followed with a single to center field, scoring Suarez.

Beau Vaughan pitched the bottom of the 11th and got three straight outs to secure the win for the Sea Dogs. Miguel Asencio pitched three innings to get the win.

Reading jumped ahead 4-0 in the first inning, capitalizing on two bases-loaded walks and a two-run single by John Suomi.

Portland got two runs back in the second inning on a pair of sacrifice flies by Josh Reddick and Argenis Diaz, then tied it with two runs in the third inning. A double by Zach Daegas pushed across one run, and a John Otness groundout drove in Jimenez with the tying run.

In the Major Leagues there is no more competitive and heated rivalry than the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.

That does not translate to the franchise's surrogates in the South Atlantic League however, where the Charleston RiverDogs have worn out the Greenville Drive like a cheap suit.

That continued on Monday when the RiverDogs blasted six home runs and 16 hits to claim a 15-0 victory over the Drive in front of 4,267 at Fluor Field.

The win, which improved Charleston to 21-21, marked the seventh straight win against the Drive (20-23) in Greenville and the 10th in the last 11 meetings between the clubs at Fluor Field.

The RiverDogs own a career 14-5 record against the Drive in Greenville.

Charleston went ahead early and continued to separate itself from the Drive throughout the game, using the home run to its advantage.

The RiverDogs bombed six home runs, giving it 14 in the first three games of the series.

Not only is Mitch Dening a dynamic offensive player, he can make dynamite plays on defense, too.

The 19-year-old Australian right fielder, the New York-Penn League's seventh-leading hitter with a .325 average, threw out the tying run at the plate to snuff a Vermont rally in the sixth inning last night, and the sizzling Lowell Spinners held on to edge the free-falling Lake Monsters 3-2 in front of the usual SRO crowd of 5,030 at LeLacheur Park.

The victory gave the first-place Spinners a four-game sweep of Vermont and was their sixth win in a row overall and 12th in their last 14 games. The Lake Monsters lost for the 12th time in 13 games.

"I love it when they try to run on me," said Dening. "But not many have been running. I think that was only my fourth assist."

It was. And it was his first in more than a month after he gunned down three baserunners in his first 14 games. The word must have gotten around the NY-PL.

But the Lake Monsters took a two-out gamble last night and lost.

Trailing 3-1 in the sixth, the Lake Monsters rallied against rehabbing reliever Chad Rhoades. Jake Dugger led off with a single, took second on a balk, and went to third on a sacrifice. Michael Guerrero then ripped a double to cut Lowell's lead to one.

After Rhoades fanned Derek Norris for the second out, Blake Stouffer lined a single into right field that Dening snared on the first hop as Guerrero streaked for the plate.

"That was the biggest situation of the game, and I was hoping the ball was hit to me," Dening said. "And everything happened just like I wanted it to."

Well, maybe not exactly like Dening envisioned it in his mind. But close.

Catcher Rafael Gil couldn't handle Dening's one-hop throw cleanly, and it squirted out of his mitt as he tried to tag Guerrero sliding by. But he forced Guerrero to slide wide and miss the plate.

Gil then picked up the ball and tagged Guerrero before he could scramble back to the plate, preserving Lowell's 3-2 lead.