Chris Carter went 1/2 before being replaced

•THE HIGHLIGHTS: Ben Broussard had a double, homer and three RBI to help the Yankees take the four-game series, three games to one. Phil Hughes, Phil Coke, Steven Jackson and Mark Melancon combined on a four-hitter for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Jason Brown’s double was the only extra-base hit for the PawSox, who scored 11 runs in Wednesday’s win, but just three runs total in their three losses in Moosic, Pa. Devern Hansack (5-10) struck out eight in seven innings while taking the loss. One of the five runs against Hansack was unearned.

•INJURY REPORT: The PawSox could be shorthanded in the outfield. Jonathan Van Every sat out last night’s game with an oblique injury and Chris Carter left the game with a similar injury. “You don’t want to take any chances with those type of injuries,” Johnson said. “The next few days we could be in a kind of wait-and-see situation.”

Whether in Maine or Connecticut, the Portland Sea Dogs can't escape rain.

When the Connecticut Defenders played the Sea Dogs on July 23 at Hadlock Field, Portland led 2-1 in the fourth inning only to have the game suspended due to rain and rescheduled for Thursday night at soggy Dodd Stadium.

After a rain delay of 1 hour and 25 minutes, Connecticut scored four runs in the seventh inning and backed it with solid relief pitching by Paul Oseguera and Jason Waddell for a 7-2 victory.

Then, in the regularly scheduled game, the teams were in a scoreless tie when the rains again came and forced a stoppage with one out in the bottom of the fourth. The game was suspended after a 35-minute delay. It will resume from the point tonight at 5:05 p.m. and be followed by a seven-inning game.

Portland lefty Kris Johnson had blanked Connecticut on three hits. In the fourth, after fanning Adam Witter for his fifth strikeout, and with a 2-1 count on Carlos Sosa, play was halted.

Connecticut's Joey Martinez had shut out Portland on three hits through four innings.

ll the elements of the game came together once again for the JetHawks against the Bakersfield Blaze. They pounded out 17 hits, got very strong pitching, and did not commit an error as the finished off a three-game sweep of the Blaze with a 5-2 victory Thursday night. The JetHawks clinched a win in the season series against the Blaze for the fourth straight year. Their magic number to clinch the #1 seed in the Southern Division is now 18.

Pitching held the Blaze in check most of the game. Starter Derrick Loop was strong in his second start for Lancaster. The left-hander matched his career high with six strikeouts and allowed only two runs through five innings. Reliever Kyle Fernandes came in and dominated the Blaze over the final four innings. The left-hander shattered his career high for strikeouts with eight, surrendering only two hits. Fernandes earned the second save of his career.

The offense did their part in staking the pitchers to the lead. The JetHawks strung together five straight hits to open the third inning, including RBI singles by Jason Place, Daniel Nava, and Jon Still to go ahead. Yamaico Navarro and Nava had run-scoring singles in the fourth inning to pad the advantage.

Charles Shirek struck out six batters in six innings as the Kannapolis Intimidators beat the Greenville Drive, 4-2, Thursday night in South Atlantic League baseball.

Shirek (4-6) scattered six hits and walked just one.

Jim Gallagher doubled in Brent Morel to give Kannapolis a 1-0 lead in the first.

Greenville scored in the third inning on David Mailman's leadoff home run.

Kannapolis scored one in the fourth and twice in the sixth, letting them withstand Jerod Stanley's ninth-inning RBI double.

Zachary Penprase had four hits and Mailman added three for Greenville, which had 12 hits.

Greenville starter Jose Capellan (2-4) allowed two runs -- one earned ó in five innings. He struck out five and allowed seven hits.

Three Brooklyn pitchers combined to strike out 15 Spinner hitters while the slumping Lowell offense could manage just one hit as the Lowell Spinners fell 2-0 to the Brooklyn Cyclones in front of 5,030 fans on Clay Buchholz “No-Hitter” Bobblehead Night, sponsored by Sovereign Bank and Budweiser.

The Spinners have not scored since the 5th inning of Monday night’s game against Vermont, a streak of 21 innings.

Brooklyn starter Chris Schwinden (2-1, 1.02) got all the run support he would need in the third inning, as the Cyclones (26-23) scored an unearned run. Right fielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis reached on a third strike wild pitch, moved to second on a single by second baseman J.R. Voyles and scored on a botched double play throw by Spinner Ryan Dent.

The Cyclones added a run in the fifth as Lowell (25-22) centerfielder Ronald Bermudez could not hold onto a deep fly ball by Brooklyn shortstop Matt Smith that turned into a three-base error, and Smith scored when Voyles laced a single up the middle.

Chad Rhoades, making his third appearance and his first start on a rehab assignment from Portland, struck out four in two innings, allowing just two singles. Bryan Price (0-2, 1.31) pitched well but was the tough-luck loser tonight, giving up two unearned runs on six hits. He struck out six in four innings. Jorge Rodriguez and Seth Garrison combined for three scoreless innings of relief.

TD Banknorth Player of the Game Tim Federowicz had the only hit for the Lowell bats tonight, and he also shined with his defense, throwing out two Brooklyn runners attempting to steal second base. Seven of the nine hitters struck out at least once tonight in the suddenly anemic Spinner offense.