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Red Sox promote LHP Henry Owens to Pawtucket

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August 1, 2014

The Boston Red Sox today have promoted heralded left-handed pitcher Henry Owens to Pawtucket from Double-A Portland. Owens, who turned 22 on July 21, joined the PawSox this afternoon and is slated to make his Triple-A debut this coming Monday night when the PawSox host the Columbus Clippers at 7:05 pm at McCoy Stadium.

Owens was 14-4 with a 2.60 ERA in 20 starts for Portland this season. He led the Eastern League in wins - his 14 victories are currently the most in all of professional baseball - and strikeouts (126 SO in 121 IP) and was 2nd in the league in ERA to teammate Brian Johnson (who has a 2.05 ERA). Owens also paced the EL in complete games (3), lowest batting average against (.201) and highest SO/9 IP ratio (9.37). He was 3rd in the league in WHIP (1.12) and 4th in fewest baserunners/9 IP ratio (10.34).

The 6'6", 205 lbs. California native was Boston's supplemental-round selection (#36 overall) in the 2011 June draft as compensation for the Red Sox losing Victor Martinez to free agency. He entered this season as Boston's #2 ranked prospect and the #2 left-handed pitching prospect in baseball according to Baseball America. 

In 2013 he led all full-season minor league qualifiers with a .177 opponent average against in 26 starts between Salem (high-A) and Portland (AA). He ranked 2nd among all minor leaguers with 169 strikeouts (the most by a Red Sox farmhand since Clay Buchholz had 171 SO in 2007). And Henry also topped full-season minor league Red Sox pitchers with a 2.67 ERA (going 8-5, 2.92 in 20 GS for Salem and 3-1, 1.78 in 6 GS for Portland last season). 

This season, Owens helped lead 1st-place Portland to a 71-42 record as his 14 victories were already a new Portland franchise-record. He began the year with a complete-game, 6-inning no-hitter in an Opening Night victory at Reading, 5-0 on April 3 as the game was called after 6-innings due to rain. Owens struck out 9 and walked just 2 batters (both of those coming in the 1st-inning). He retired the final 16 batters he faced and did not allow a ball out of the infield. He followed that up with 6.2 scoreless innings (also with 9 SO) in a win at Trenton in his next start on April 9. 

Henry posted a 9-game winning streak (a Portland record) from May 24 - July 19 and during that stretch also put together a Sea Dogs' record 27.2 consecutive scoreless inning streak (over four starts) from May 24 - June 14. He tied his career-high with 11 strikeouts in a win vs. New Britain on July 6 when he also matched his career-high working 8-innings (allowing 1 run). Owens was a consistent 6-2, 2.54 in 9 starts at home and 8-2, 2.66 in 11 starts on the road. 

Owens started the Futures Game on July 13 in Minnesota (1 IP, 1 H, 1 SO) and was named an Eastern League mid-season All-Star but did not participate in the game.

His final line with Portland - 121 IP, 89 H, 36 R, 35 ER, 47 BB, 126 SO, 6 HRA.