There is no playing out the string this season for the Worcester Red Sox. The WooSox are red hot, having won three games in a row and seven of their last 10.

With two weeks to play in the International League schedule, manager Chad Tracy's team is in the playoff hunt.

"It's exciting. It's what you play for," he said. "You know, you hope you get to the end of the season and you got two weeks to go and your playing meaningful games and I said last week not just finishing up the calendar."

For the WooSox, pitcher Richard Fitts has been a standout on the mound. On September 8, Fitts made the quick drive down the Mass Pike and made his major league debut for the Boston Red Sox. It was a call-up that the manager was thrilled to announce.

"He [Fitts] was very excited," Tracy said. "Even the thought that he was in the cards and in the conversations, really cool to be able to tell him. All of us texted him later, once we knew it was becoming official [that] they were going to do that and he was going to start. We all reached out and congratulated him. He deserves it. He's been a stalwart in our rotation, and the last month, he's been exceptional here, so he deserved the opportunity."