PAWTUCKET — At this point in the regular season for Pawtucket and Scranton Wilkes/Barre, the final scores aren’t important.

Scranton Wilkes/Barre already has locked up the International League North regular-season title and Pawtucket is out of playoff contention.

If you ask Pawtucket manager Ron Johnson, the final scores are never as important as developing young players to get them ready for the big leagues.

So Pawtucket’s 11-2 loss and 6-3 victory in a day-night doubleheader against the Yankees yesterday weren’t even on Johnson’s radar screen.

What is important, Johnson said, is the fact that Boston called up four players from Pawtucket — outfielders Jacoby Ellsbury and Brandon Moss and pitchers Clay Buchholz and Craig Breslow — and purchased the contracts of two others — pitcher Bryan Corey and shortstop Royce Clayton.

A total of 15 different players has been promoted from Pawtucket to Boston this season, and a few more could be added to the Red Sox’ roster before the season ends.

“Our focus here has never changed. It has always been to prepare guys to service our major-league team,” Johnson said. “No disrespect to anyone here, I want to win as many games as I can, but we have to have these guys in a position to [be ready when Boston calls]. We were able to send six guys to the major leagues and I’m very proud of that.”

The PawSox added several new faces last month. Among those who are still in Pawtucket include Charlie Zink (RHP), Dusty Brown (catcher) and Chris Carter (1B), and Pawtucket added Cory Keylor (Portland), John Barnes (Portland), Blake Maxwell (Lancaster), Scott Lonergan (Lowell) and Jeff Farnsworth (York) yesterday.

It’s tough to win games with a lot of roster movement. Yesterday was a perfect example of that.

Pawtucket’s batters were dominated by four Scranton Wilkes/Barre pitchers in the opener.

Matt DeSalvo (5 innings, 3 walks, 3 strikeouts), Scott Patterson (3 innings, 0 walks, 1 strikeouts), Charlie Manning (two-thirds of an inning, 2 walks, 2 hits, 2 runs, 2 strikeouts) and Colter Bean (1 inning, 1 strikeout) combined for a two-hitter.

Carter prevented history from being made in the bottom of the ninth when he ripped a two-out single down the third-base line off Manning, who struck out the first two batters he faced. Only once in the International League’s 124-year history have three pitchers combined to no-hit a team in a nine-inning game. Keylor hit a two-out, bases-loaded two-run single in the ninth for Pawtucket’s two runs. Raul Chavez broke up Zink’s no-hitter in the top of the fifth inning with a one-out single to left field. That rattled Zink, who walked three batters with the bases loaded to force in three runs and allowed a two-run single to Bronson Sardinha and a two-run double to Chavez.

In the nightcap, a Junior Spivey RBI single, a Joe McEwing RBI double and a Carter RBI double in the fourth gave Pawtucket a 5-1 lead.

roblee@projo.com