The Charlotte Knights had the cleanest win of the night, and Ryan Galanie made sure of it.
Charlotte beat Scranton/Wilkes-Barre 7-2 behind a loud day from Galanie, who went 3-for-5 with a homer, four RBI and a 29.0% WPA. The Knights grabbed a quick 2-0 lead in the first after Rikuu Nishida and Dru Baker drew back-to-back leadoff walks, Ryan Galanie singled, and Junior Perez drove in a run with a ground out.
The RailRiders answered in the bottom of the second with two runs off rehabbing Drew Thorpe, but Charlotte punched right back in the third. Galanie launched a two-run shot for his 19th homer of the season, giving the Knights a 4-2 lead and the GWRBI. Riley Unroe then added another two-run blast in the fourth to stretch it to 6-2 and put the game away.
Thorpe kept building on a strong rehab run, working five innings and allowing those two runs while striking out six and walking two. He threw 83 pitches and, in theory, could be ready for a call-up back to the South Side as soon as next week. On the season, Thorpe is 1-0 with a 2.86 ERA over 22 innings and a 1.000 WHIP.
Charlotte also got a tidy relief combo from Tyler Gilbert and Tyler Davis, with Davis relieving Gilbert and the pair combining for 2 IP, BB and 2 Ks.
Birmingham kept its postseason push rolling with a 9-1 thumping of Chattanooga, and the Barons’ path is suddenly looking a lot more dangerous for the rest of the Southern League. Birmingham is 22-25 in the second half, just two games out of a playoff spot, and despite a 48-68 overall record, the setup in an eight-team league keeps the door open.
The Barons jumped all over the Lookouts in the first inning with a pair of two-run homers from Alec Briley and Ryan Burrowes to build a 4-0 lead immediately. Burrowes finished with three hits on the night. Birmingham tacked on another run in the second after Samuel Zavala singled, stole second, moved to third on a Dylan Campbell hit and scored on a Caleb Bonemer sac fly.
The pitching wasn’t perfect - seven walks is plenty - but it was still effective enough. Juan Carela, rehabbing from TJS, gave up Chattanooga’s only run over four innings and lowered his ERA to 4.20. Liam Paddack finished things off with two scoreless innings and picked up the win.
Winston-Salem stayed in the second-half race despite a 5-1 loss to Greenville, remaining a half-game up, but the Dash did not look like a club ready for October. They had four hits and two errors, and those four hits were only three singles and a double.
The first inning set the tone. Ely Brown and Javier Mogollón drew walks, then both moved up on a double steal after a Kyle Lodise strikeout. But George Wolkow and Jeral Perez both came up empty, and Winston-Salem never found much rhythm after that.
Carlton Perkins was the bright spot, striking out three in an inning of relief while throwing 10-of-13 strikes. Mogollón had the best day at the plate for the Dash, going 2-for-3 with a double, a run, a walk, a strikeout and a steal. George Wolkow drove in the lone run, while Drew Conover also logged a scoreless inning of relief.
The night went sideways quickly for Kannapolis, which was shut out 5-0 by Fredericksburg in a game that was ugly almost from the start. The Cannon Ballers managed just four singles and were caught stealing three times without a successful swipe.
Fredericksburg got on the board with a solo homer in the third, then added another long ball off starter Truman Pauley in the fourth to go up 2-0. The FredNats added an insurance run in the sixth and never looked back.
Pauley had a strange line: he allowed only two hits in 4 1/3 innings, but both were home runs, and he was tagged with the loss to fall to 2-11. He also walked four, struck out five and hit a batter. Daniel Wright was the lone bright spot out of the Kannapolis bullpen, working 1 2/3 innings with one hit allowed and two strikeouts.
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