The righthander is 6-1 with a 2.17 earned run average over nine starts after pitching six strong innings against the Minnesota Twins in an 8-5 victory on Tuesday night.

An official with another team described the Red Sox to be in “stealth” mode with 48 hours to go. “Haven’t heard much of anything with them,” volunteered an executive with another club.

The Boston Red Sox are reportedly interested in adding Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Mitch Keller, although they have competition from other teams, per Noah Hiles of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

On Tuesday, Rob Bradford of WEEI posted a picture of Chadwick Tromp, a 30-year-old veteran who has played for three major league teams, in the Worcester Red Sox's dugout. At the time, the Red Sox and Minor League Baseball transaction log had yet to reflect anything about a signing.

Righty reliever Justin Slaten, who has been out since May 29 due to shoulder inflammation in his pitching arm, played catch from the mound Tuesday in Boston, marking the first time he has toed the rubber in about two months. Next up are real bullpen sessions for Slaten, whose recovery has been slower than expected.

After electing free agency last week, the 30-year-old backstop agreed to a minor league deal with the Orioles' division rival.

Brooks Lee hit a pair of two-run home runs — off Justin Wilson in the seventh and off Jorge Alcala in the ninth, when the lead was large enough to try to avoid using Chapman — to turn a potential blowout into a late-and-close situation.

Craig Breslow has maintained that the Red Sox will add at the trade deadline. If so, how could that look? To discuss the deadline and set up a crucial week for the club, Red Sox beat writer Jen McCaffrey hosted a live Q&A with The Athletic subscribers on Tuesday afternoon. Here are five key questions that were asked and answered during the chat.

“I mean, a long day in general,” Hicks told reporters. “But obviously I got fully hot [before the delay] and ran on the field and felt really good to go. Then they pulled the tarp, I came back in, sat for an hour, got hot again, and didn’t really have my legs and didn’t know where the zone was.”