•THE SKINNY: The PawSox wrapped up a miserable month of August (9-23), while wasting a gutsy pitching performance from starter Michael Bowden.

Lehigh Valley knotted the game with a run in the bottom of the fifth off Bowden, then grabbed the lead next inning with a tally off reliever T.J. Large.

The Pigs scored two more times in the seventh, which proved to be too large a hurdle for the punchless PawSox.

Lehigh Valley starter Drew Carpenter, a top Phillies’ pitching prospect, threw seven strong innings to raise his mark to 11-5.

After the game, OFs Brian Anderson and Joey Gathright were both promoted to Boston as the big-league rosters expand. Other call-ups were expected to be made later.

•THE HIGHLIGHT: Pawtucket struck first, scoring its lone run in the top of the fourth, after Dusty Brown’s two-out single brought in Anderson.

•PROSPECT WATCH: Bowden lived on the edge for much of his five-inning stint. He faced two-on, none-out predicaments in each of his last three frames, but allowed only one run, that coming on a fifth-inning Jason Ellison sacrifice fly. Bowden left with the game knotted 1-1. In all, he allowed six hits, but didn’t walk a Pig, while fanning four of them.

•THEY SAID IT: “I wish I could have had the year I had last year,” said knuckleballer Charlie Zink, who went from 14-6 with the PawSox last year to 5-15 this season. “I still had that year, last year, so people know what I can do.”

Zink, who has been in the Red Sox chain since 2002, the longest continuous service by any Sox farmhand, will be a free agent next week.

“I definitely enjoy it here, and I’d like to be back,” he said. “But there are no guarantees. I’m not exactly sure what will happen.”

•ODDS AND ENDS: The PawSox fell one loss short of the franchise mark for losses in any month, set way back in June 1975 ... Elsewhere, Josh Papelbon, a reliever like his big brother Jonathan, moved a notch closer to Fenway, after being promoted to Double-A Portland on Monday.

•UP NEXT: The PawSox will wrap up their five-game swing through Pennsylvania on Tuesday (7:05 p.m.), when RHP Adam Mills (1-1, 3.27) starts against Lehigh Valley RHP Kyle Kendrick (8-7, 3.38). It’s also possible that Pawtucket will get a look at rehabbing hurler Brett Myers, who is working his way back to Philadelphia after undergoing hip surgery in June. Myers would pitch an inning at most.