Welcome back, Danny Mendick! Down 4-0 in their final at bat, the Knights staged a dramatic 5-4 comeback highlighted by Mendick’s two-out, three-run walk-off home run. It was only Mendick’s second game with the Knights since his Aug. 26 demotion. Making the win even more improbable, the Knights had just lost game one of today’s […]
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As the Knights head into the final five series of the season, plenty of intrigue remains. The team had a rare night off Friday because of an NFL game next door in Bank of America stadium, giving me a chance to step back and think about the biggest unanswered questions during the final 32 games
Romy Gonzalez, Blake Rutherford, Micker Adolfo with much to prove down the stretch Read More »
There are times when Blake Rutherford looks like the can’t-miss prospect he was thought to be when he was taken in the first round of the 2016 draft. Tonight was one of those nights. In the Knights’ 9-2 win over the Durham Bulls in Charlotte, Rutherford cracked two home runs and a double, tallied three
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With a great effort from John Parke, the Knights finally had a chance to beat the Durham Bulls. But a power-laden offense couldn’t muster anything more than a lone single in six innings against Bulls’ starter Brent Honeywell, whose screwball was unhittable in a 9-2 loss in Charlotte tonight. It got a little better when
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Jake Burger hit two homers and Romy Gonzalez doubled in his first at bat, making it four doubles in his last six at bats and seven hits in his first 10 at bats in Triple-A. But the Knights otherwise came up short again against their nemesis up the road, the Durham Bulls, who won 12-6
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It was the most exciting week of the season for the Knights, highlighted by two walk-off wins in a mid-week doubleheader and the Triple-A debut of Romy Gonzalez, the best ever start to a career in Charlotte in recent memory. Promoted on Saturday from Birmingham, Gonzalez exploded on the scene with a two-home-run game, including
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When FutureSox releases its updated Top 30 prospect list in the next few days, Blake Rutherford will not be included. It is a precipitous fall for the former 18th overall pick in 2016, and 13th best White Sox FutureSox prospect this past spring. What happened? Here’s a look at his season — by the numbers
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Romy Gonzalez had quite a coming out party in his first game in Triple-A, with two home runs, including a bottom-of-the-ninth, three-run walk-off blast off a 100-mph fast ball for a 7-5 Knights’ win over the Norfolk Tides. “He’s a professional hitter,” manager Wes Helms said post-game. “He’s a guy who can hit in the
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The Knights finally got a well-pitched bullpen game, but the offense flamed out, with just a solo home run, double and four singles in a 4-1 loss to the Norfolk Tides in Charlotte Friday night. The Knights have a starting pitching shortage this week with the recent injury to Jonathan Stiever and the Mike Wright
Geez. So much for the momentum from last night’s double header twin walk-offs. The Norfolk Tides got their revenge tonight, pounding four home runs on the way to an 11-6 win in Charlotte. And it wasn’t really that close as the Tides were up 10-1 after six before the Knights made it respectable. Tides’ starter
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