Nashville Sounds 5, Charlotte Knights 2 (Statcast Box)
Despite the fact that they put 11 runners on the base through six hits and five walks, the Knights (59-69) could not benefit. Corey Julks and Dominic Fletcher started the game with back-to-back singles in the first of the first, and then, with two, Charlotte loaded the bases when Blake Sabol worked a free pass. Unfortunately, the momentum of the knights got stuck when the inning ended with zero enthusiasts. Nashville, however, quickly took control, scored a point in the bottom of the first and stacked himself on three more in the second to take a 4-0 lead, recently relegated starter Sean Burke. The righthander only lasted 1 2/3 frames, which clearly still struggled of whatever he shoots.
The knights finally came on the board in the third inning when Andre Lipcius doubled and rode in Dominic Fletcher, but the attack just couldn’t get it going. The rest of the game was a defensive battle, in which the Hurlers of both teams ended all the large scoring threats.
Shockingly enough, the bullpen of the knights usually kept strong after the second inning, so that the sounds’ attack were limited to one run, but the bats of the knights could not find the Nashville, where the team hit a total of 14 times. A spark of hope appeared in the seventh when Julks Jacob Amaya hung at home, the shortage limited to 5-2. However, that was the last score of the Knights, because the last three innings were a series of strikeouts and land outs. The struggles of the team with runners in a score position, only go 1-out-7, and an inability to merge meaningful hits, eventually sealed their fate.
Knoxville Smokies 7, Birmingham Barons 3 (10 innings)
There was a lot of early promise for the Barons (74-49), which scratches a few points in the third inning thanks to a number of heads-up baseunning and coupling. Jason Matthews set the table with a shock and later came to score when a grounder was started. William Bergolla wasted no time, and Wilfred Veras delivered with an RBI doublel to the opening, giving Birmingham a 2-0 lead.
On the hill, Shane Murphy De Smokies stopped through four, blinking impressive command and it got big outs with ground balls before handing things to the pen. The 24-year-old has had an excellent season and goes 10-4 with a 1.57 ERA and 0.85 Whip. My only question is: “Can we see this man as a September call-up?”
But as we know White Sox fans all too well, baseball games are not decided in the third, and the barons discovered that in the hard way. Tennessee clawed back to even the score in the seventh, and as soon as the game came into extras, the bats of the visitors broke out. A series of base is correct in the 10th cracked things wide open before Pablo Aliendo’s three-run explosion brought the game out of reach. Birmingham succeeded in forming a lonely run in their half, but it was not enough, because the barons fell into a match that started with a small ball-precision and ended in a long ball heartache.
Winston-Salem Dash 4, Rome Emperors 3
Drake Logan got things moving for the dashboard (52-69) in the second inning with a lead-off triple. Then, with two out, Lyle-Miller Green tore a double to bring him home for the first run of the dashboard. The emperors answered in the third, but WS rose back in the fourth thanks to a solo blast Ryan Burrowes.
Rome briefly returned the lead in the fifth, only for the dashboard to tie it 3-3 in the seventh on a single Samuel Zavala and a Jeral Perez-Double. The dashboard took the lead in the ninth when Jackson Appel worked a walk, Perez hit a single to put runners on the corners after a land from Zavala, and Alec Makarewicz provided a sacrifice to score the winning run.
The Pitching Staff delivered for the most part of the competition. Frankeli Arias set the tone with four strong innings, gave only one point on four hits, walked no and blows three. The only blemish of the Southpaw was a solo -homer in the third. Reliever Jack Young was unfortunately not as sharp as Arias and was tagged for three points in just 1/3 of a collection. Phil Fox took the hill in the ninth, a two-out single, but closed the door by making a knot to secure his ninth save of the season.
Salem Red Sox 5, Kannapolis Cannon Ballers 4
The bat of the ballers (57-66) started things early, picking four in the first four frames, including Clutch RBI Doubles by George Wolkow and James Taussig. Anthony Depino also joined the party and launched his first home run of the season.
With the early stories, Kanny gave an impressive 4-0 lead on the way to the sixth, but Salem walked away with two runs in the frame to cut the margin in two. The Red Sox collected again and scored once in the seventh and twice in the ninth to take a 5-4 lead. The attack of the ballers had one last shot on the bottom of the ninth to bind or walk it, but could only collect a two-out single and slip away their early momentum.
Starter Justin Sinibaldi was great and threw five frames from scoreless ball. He only allowed six baserunners with three walks and three hits while he hit four. The SOX selected the 24-year-old in round 14 of last year’s design. He had a rough start of the 2025 campaign, but has demonstrated improvement throughout the season. Pierce George struggled out of the pen and surrendered two points in just 1/3 of a collection. Jake Peppers, who came up in the ninth to exclude things, took the loss and also earned a bloated salvation for binding and go-ahead tallies to get home.
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