Is Bowden scheduled to go tomorrow? Today is his 6th day of rest since his 8/16 start.

Lowell wins another nail biter, 2-1.

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Kyle Weiland went the first 5 innings, giving up a hit and striking out 3.

Weiland has been completely dominant at Lowell with a WHIP well under 1, and more than a SO per inning. I wonder if there's any chance he'll be moved up to Lancaster for a few starts before the season ends?

•KEY TO THE GAME: Misses in the field and at the plate. Pawtucket had not committed an error in its previous six games but made three in the first three innings last night — a fielding miscue by second baseman Joe Thurston in the first, a throwing error by third baseman Gil Velazquez in the second, and a high throw by Thurston with two outs in the third that allowed Rochester’s first run to score. The Wings added three more runs before the inning was over.

The PawSox managed just five hits against right-hander Philip Humber, one of four New York Mets prospects acquired by the Minnesota Twins in the offseason for pitcher Johan Santana. Humber went the distance, walking none and striking out eight. He threw 118 pitches.

PawSox starter Edgar Martinez (7-3) allowed four runs in 3 1/3 innings.

The Portland Sea Dogs allowed a pair of early runs with two outs, and that was all the Harrisburg Senators needed for a 2-1 win Friday night.

The loss by the Sea Dogs allowed the Trenton Thunder to clinch first place in the Eastern League's Northern Division, despite a 7-2 loss to Reading. Portland remained two games ahead of Binghamton for the second playoff spot.

Harrisburg took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Seth Bynum drew a two-out walk and scored on Ofilio Castro's RBI double.

In the second, Garrett Guzman doubled with two outs and scored on a hit by Edgardo Baez.

Portland got a run back in the fourth. Lars Anderson walked and scored on Tony Granadillo's single with two outs.

Harrisburg reliever Steve Schmoll (3-4) pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings to earn the win. Schmoll, who allowed five hits and struck out three, relieved starter Jordan Zimmerman, who gave up just three hits and fanned four, but also walked three in four innings.

Adam Carr took the mound in the eighth with Portland pinch-runner Argenis Diaz at second base. He got out of the inning when Josh Reddick fouled out to the catcher, then pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 11th save.

Dustin Richardson (7-8) had seven strikeouts through five innings for the Sea Dogs, but gave up four hits and two runs.

It is hard to pitch a shutout, strike out nine batters in your debut, and get overshadowed. But despite Felix Doubront’s brilliant debut with the JetHawks, it was second baseman Kris Negron who stole the show. Negron had a career night, hitting two home runs for the first time in his career, getting five hits and five RBI for the first time, and falling just a double shy of the cycle as the JetHawks shut out the Bakersfield Blaze 9-0.

With the win, the JetHawks magic number to clinch the Southern Division’s top seed is down to three. Lancaster needs only three wins the rest of the season, or three losses by the second place team, to clinch. The JetHawks remain in first place in the second half by one and ½ games.

Lancaster was dominant throughout, taking the lead in the first inning. Jason Place and Negron both singled, then Ryan Kalish hit a three-run homer. It was his second home run of the series and Kalish drove in seven over the three games. Luis Exposito added his tenth home run of the season in the first inning as well.

Michael Almanzar's eighth-inning double broke a 4-4 tie and the Greenville Drive held on to beat the Greensboro Grasshoppers, 6-4, Friday night in South Atlantic League baseball.

Oscar Tejeda led off the Drive eighth with a single and stole second base against former Clemson standout Kris Harvey (0-2). Almanzar greeted Greensboro reliever Andrew Battisto with a double to left field to drive in Tejeda.

Greenville added a run in the ninth on a single by Carlos Ferndez-Oliva and a double by Jered Stanley.

Tejeda had three hits and David Marks had a home run for Greenville.

Greenville reliever Javier Garcia (3-1) struck out five batters in two innings.

Luis Sumoza belted his 10th homer of the season, a solo shot with one out in the top of the ninth, powering the Lowell Spinners to a 2-1 New York-Penn League triumph over the Brooklyn Cyclones last night at KeySpan Park.

Sumoza's bomb, which made him only the second player in Spinners' history to hit 10 homers or more, broke a tie created when the teams traded a pair of unearned runs.

Carlos Rodriguez hit 12 homers for Lowell in 1999.

Lowell (33-26), posting its seventh win in the last eight games, extended its Stedler Division lead over Oneonta to 81/2 games over Oneonta and reduced its magic number to clinch its first-ever division title to nine.

The Spinners struck first in the third inning when Ronald Bermudez doubled home Derrik Gibson.

Brooklyn tied it in the seventh on a throwing error by shortstop Jonathan Hee.

Starting pitcher Kyle Weiland, turning in Lowell's second consecutive strong performance in this series, faced the minimum 15 batters over his five-inning stretch.

Weiland allowed just one hit while fanning three and issuing no walks.

Lowell only allowed 2 hits. Charle Rosario also pitched well in relief before closer Seth Garrison, making his 20th appearance this season, registered his eighth save in 10 opportunities with a 1-2-3 ninth.