ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The PawSox, a team that has been victory starved for most of the year, grabbed two in one swipe, last night, taking a double-header from the Rochester Red Wings, 6-2 and 3-1, before 7,655 at Frontier Field.

In the opener, the PawSox blended timely hitting from some unlikely sources with a strong complete-game four-hitter by lefty hurler Jon Lester (3-4), while in the nightcap, Mike Burns (1-6), making a strong start out of the bullpen, hurled five scoreless innings of two-hit ball.

“I’m very happy that we’re back to winning again,” said shortstop Alex Prieto. “It’s good for us. We’re starting to put everything together.”

Lester had allowed just one hit through six innings, an RBI single in the first by Garrett Jones that gave the Wings a brief 1-0 lead.

Pawtucket replied with a run in the third, after Prieto, who dragged a tepid .119 batting average into the game, stroked a lead-off single off Wings’ starter Jason Miller (1-3). One out later, he was singled in by Joe McEwing.The PawSox grabbed a 2-1 lead in the fifth, when Jacoby Ellsbury, sent back by Boston earlier in the day, yanked a solo homer — his first in 298 at-bats split among Portland, Pawtucket, and Boston — to right field.

Then in the sixth, Prieto and Ellsbury combined to ignite a four-run explosion — with each knocking in two runs — to break the game open, 6-1. Lester faltered slightly with two out in the seventh, allowing a run on three singles.

But he rang up Tommy Watkins with a 92-mph fastball to finish off the Wings. He now has both complete games thrown by PawSox pitchers this season.

Burns gave Pawtucket a huge boost in Game 2, while David Murphy supplied the necessary run support, with a pair of RBI singles, plating Ellsbury both times.

“I just wanted to throw zeroes as long as possible,” said Burns. “I was throwing real well, just trying to throw that first quality strike.”

Murphy’s first hit came in the third, when Bobby Scales added a run-scoring double. Pawtucket has now won four straight, matching their season’s high.

AROUND THE BASES: PawSox skipper Ron Johnson’s job is to get players ready for the big leagues, and one need only to look at the number of current Boston Red Sox who bear his fingerprints (Dustin Pedroia, Kevin Youkilis, Jonathan Papelbon, et al) to see that he does his job well. But he admits that seeing first baseman Jeff Bailey get the call by Boston, after 11 seasons in the minors, was especially meaningful. “I was so excited about it,” said Johnson, who has managed Bailey for four seasons, two each at Portland and Pawtucket, “I could hardly sleep. It’s always special, but this one is really special because we’ve been together a lot of years.”

Bailey’s place on the PawSox roster was taken by Ellsbury, back after his own six-game big league debut, although he’ll be on the move again, today, when he flies to San Francisco to play in the All-Star Futures Game. He said that besides the natural thrill of wearing Boston uniform for the first time, the biggest thing he took away from the experience was getting a first hand view of how big leaguers prepare themselves to play.The teams will play again tonight (7:05) with LHP Abe Alvarez (4-7, 4.76) set to go against Rochester LHP Brian Duensing (4-2, 3.00).