•THE HIGHLIGHTS: Carlos Carrasco, considered by most the pitching jewel in the Philadelphia Phillies’ system, dominated the PawSox over the first six innings as his club staked him to a 4-0 lead. But once Lehigh Valley’s third error of the night opened the door in the seventh, Pawtucket stormed right in. The PawSox chased Carrasco and scored two unearned runs in the seventh before Jonathan Van Every’s gapper off Australian left-hander Travis Blackley cleared the bases and made it 5-5 in the eighth. Two batters later, Joe Thurston singled home the lead run off Jason Anderson.

Pawtucket added some insurance on Keith Ginter’s sacrifice fly and Gil Velasquez’s RBI triple in the ninth. Those runs proved huge when Lehigh Valley loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth, bringing the potential winning run to the plate with one out. But left-hander Hunter Jones fanned Rich Thompson, then got Mike Cervanak to pop up in recording his eighth save.

•KEYS TO THE GAME: Carrasco mixed his pitches well and used both sides of the plate to stifle the PawSox over the first six innings, but Pawtucket wouldn’t go away. It took advantage of the third of four Iron Pigs errors to cut the lead in half in the seventh on Thurston’s RBI grounder and Jason Lane’s RBI infield single. In the eighth they jumped all over Blackley, who put himself in a bind by walking two of the first three hitters before Van Every and Thurston delivered the big blows.

•PROSPECT WATCH: Two weeks removed from a less-than-memorable major-league debut in which he squandered a 10-0 lead, Charlie Zink struggled early with his control, walking three in one inning and serving up Cervanak’s seventh homer of the season. But he settled down after that to keep his club within striking distance, eventually being rewarded with his 14th win.

•THEY SAID IT: PawSox manager Ron Johnson on keeping the powerful Van Every, back in the lineup after a strained oblique, in the No. 9 hole: “I kind of like having a guy in that spot who’s not a traditional nine-hole guy. I’m comfortable with it and when you have success why mess with it?”

Zink on his slow start: “I just had trouble waking up. We didn’t get in here till 5 o’clock in the morning and I didn’t fall asleep till around 8. I needed to wake myself up, and the first couple of innings were tough.”

•OF NOTE: The win enhanced Pawtucket’s bid to set a franchise record for wins with 84. It needs four victories in the final seven games –– all except two of them against Lehigh Valley –– to reach the milestone. Pawtucket is 10-1 against the Pigs.