The White Sox farm system had a little bit of everything on August 14, 2026: a strong bounce-back start, a few frustrating bullpen turns, one big offensive night in Winston-Salem, and a DSL game that turned into a full-blown track meet.
At Charlotte, Noah Schultz got his first start since being demoted from the parent club and gave the Knights four solid innings. He allowed a solo homer in the first, then settled in and kept Rochester off the board over his final three frames. Charlotte backed him with Mario Camilletti’s RBI single in the third and Andy Weber’s solo homer in the fifth to briefly take a 2-1 lead.
That edge didn’t last. Nick Altermatt covered two scoreless innings, but Tyler Davis couldn’t protect the slim margin, putting two runners on early before Liover Peguero lined a two-run RBI drive to center to flip the game in Rochester’s favor. Peyton Pallette then came on in the eighth and allowed two more runs on four pitches, putting the result away in a 5-2 Red Wings win.
Schultz was the clear bright spot for Charlotte, while Altermatt’s clean two innings also stood out. Dru Baker added a 2-for-4 night, and Weber finished with the homer, a run, and an RBI. On the other side, Davis and Pallette took the hit in a rough finish.
Birmingham had a similar story: one standout offensive performance and not nearly enough behind it. Caleb Bonemer accounted for both Barons runs with a triple and a double, but the rest of the lineup managed just five hits and struck out eight times. Shane Murphy labored through five innings, giving up five runs with three walks and five strikeouts, and Columbus added another run off Phil Fox in the eighth on the way to a 6-2 win.
Bonemer was the obvious offensive anchor for Birmingham. Carson Jacobs worked two scoreless innings out of the bullpen, and Dylan Campbell and Samuel Zavala each chipped in a run-scoring night, but the lineup overall never found enough traction.
Winston-Salem, meanwhile, kept itself in the thick of the second-place race with a 9-4 win over Greensboro. Kyle Lodise opened the scoring with a solo homer in the second, and Shalin Polanco answered with a bases-loaded walk to keep things even. From there, the Dash started to separate in the fifth when Roch Cholowsky drove in two with a two-out line drive past first base.
The game got away from Greensboro in the seventh. Cholowsky added another RBI, George Wolkow stretched his hit streak to five games with an RBI single, and Lodise launched his second homer of the night.
Winston-Salem’s pitching was sharp for most of the game, too, before Landen Payne trimmed the lead by two in the ninth. Even with that late wobble, it was still one of the Dash’s better staff efforts of the second half.
Lodise led the way with a 3-for-4 night that included two runs, two RBI, a walk, and a strikeout. Cholowsky drove in two, Jeral Perez reached twice and scored, and Kaleb Freeman drew three walks while scoring twice. Jack Young also turned in 2 1/3 scoreless innings.
Kannapolis found a way to squeeze out a 4-3 win over Hickory and move back into a tie with the August GreenJackets for third in the Carolina League South. Fabian Ysalla responded well after his last outing, working five innings and allowing six hits, two runs, and a walk. The bullpen handled most of the rest, though Grant Cleavinger made the final three outs more tense than necessary.
Offensively, Stiven Flores and Grayson Fitzwater each finished with two hits, and Flores scored three of the team’s four runs. The Cannon Ballers didn’t hit a home run, but they had chances to add more and went just 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position. Still, the pitching and enough timely contact got the job done.
The DSL White Sox and DSL Rockies staged the wildest game of the day, a 19-18 Rockies win in eight innings. Ronald Cardozo and Samuel Luis each homered for the White Sox, and the lineup mixed in extra-base hits all over the place, including a triple from Orland Patino. The team also stole three bases and drew six walks, but it still went only 5-for-13 with runners in scoring position.
Nobody on either mound staff had much fun. The White Sox couldn’t get through the game without giving up a string of runs, and the Rockies were just as shaky, turning it into a messy, back-and-forth slugfest.
In extras, the White Sox saw their ghost runner thrown out at third on a sacrifice bunt attempt to start the inning, which ended their chance to score. Colorado then finished it with a passed ball and a single for the final run in the 19-18 game.
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