Worcester: W, 5-2 (BOX SCORE)

Kyle Harrison’s biggest issue in Triple-A has been his efficiency, as he often requires 20-25 pitches to make it through an inning, even a clean one. This time in Durham (Rays AAA), the lefty got through three innings without much incident in 38 pitches. That’s better! I’m running out of times saying “this might have been his last start in Worcester” before it looks like a boy who cried wolf scenario, but with September 1 looming and Alex Cora recently having to run an opener, it looks like this shorter appearance was for a reason.

From the looks of things, outside of Sandlin’s inning of work, the pitching held things down. The pace was mostly controlled by Worcester’s early lead via Nick Sogard hitting a leadoff home run. With that long ball, Sogard extende

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