PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Blake Swihart still isn’t over his ankle troubles.

The PawSox placed Swihart on the disabled list on Wednesday with left ankle inflammation. The team’s hope is that the disabled-list stint and the upcoming All-Star break will be enough time for Swihart to feel good again.

The soreness Swihart is experiencing isn’t in exactly the same spot in the left ankle that required surgery last August, the sheath covering the peroneal tendon that he injured when he crashed into the fence along the left-field line at Fenway Park in June. But it is close enough that it’s almost certainly related to last year’s injury and surgery.

PawSox manager Kevin Boles said he could see this week that Swihart was having trouble getting into his stance behind the plate and maneuvering from side-to-side to block pitches. Boles brought Swihart into his office to ask him about it -- and while Swihart didn’t want to confess to being in pain, "he couldn’t hide this," Boles said.

Swihart already missed time earlier this season with a finger contusion from a series of foul balls and a collision with first baseman Sam Travis in mid-April. If he has been playing through ankle discomfort, that perhaps in part explains a season that has seen him hit an ugly .213 with a .265 on-base percentage and a .327 slugging percentage. He has hit .271 with a .328 on-base percentage and a .386 slugging percentage in more than 100 games in the major leagues.

The Red Sox drafted and developed Swihart as a catcher. He even caught David Price on Opening Day in Cleveland in 2016. But it took just a week at the start of the season for Boston to relieve Swihart of his catching duties and option him back to Triple-A -- and, eventually, make him a left fielder. It was in his 13th game in left field that he crashed into the fence and wrecked his ankle.

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Everything about confronting elbow discomfort was foreign to Ben Taylor.

The discomfort itself was foreign, which is why Taylor tried to pitch through it initially. The recovery was foreign, too. Even the painstaking progress toward feeling like he had before the discomfort emerged was foreign -- and it wasn’t until his two-inning outing Thursday at Rochester that he felt like that again.

Taylor struck out two and didn’t yield a hit in his outing Thursday, his fourth outing since his return to the PawSox on June 26. He’d allowed two runs, including a home run, in three innings pitched in his first three appearances.

Before that, aside from a pair of rehab appearances at short-season Single-A Lowell, he hadn’t pitched in a game since May 20. He’d spent the early part of his rehabilitation fighting inconsistency in his delivery -- opening up his front shoulder too early, throwing a fastball that would run side-to-side rather than stay true with the backspin that causes hitters to see a late rise.

Even his velocity -- which ticked up Thursday, Boles said -- didn’t tell him as much as how he felt in his delivery. The backspin and late rise he gets matters more than his velocity.

"Whenever I’m throwing the fastball well, it has that good ride," he said. "Yesterday I felt like I had that. Yesterday was probably the first time I’d felt good, right back to normal."

Taylor came out of nowhere in spring training -- he’d never pitched above Double-A -- to earn an unlikely spot on Boston’s Opening Day roster. He struck out seven and walked three in 5 2/3 innings while compiling a 1.59 ERA in four appearances in his first stint with Boston, including strikeouts of Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez in his second big-league appearance. He endured more difficulty in his second stint, compiling a 10.13 ERA with seven strikeouts and six walks in eight innings pitched.

Those numbers suggest that all wasn’t right with his arm even while he was with the Red Sox. It wasn’t until he got back to Triple-A, however, that he was diagnosed with -- and sent to Fort Myers to deal with -- inflammation in his forearm.