While the Knights aren’t exactly finishing the season playing their best baseball, a handful of its young prospects certainly are. The Knights lost three of five to the Norfolk Tides on the week, including a 6-1 drubbing on Sunday. In those three losses, the Knights could only plate five runs as the offense has struggled for […]
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John Parke pitched a great game and the Knights broke out of an offensive slump with five extra-base hits on the way to a 6-5 walk-off in the bottom of the ninth against the Norfolk Tides in Charlotte Saturday night. Romy Gonzalez continued his torrid pace in Triple-A, with a double and two singles tonight.
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The Knights appear to be coming into the end of the season on fumes. Whether it is disinterest, fatigue or loss of focus, the team isn’t firing on all cylinders in these final few weeks. Tonight, they fell to the Norfolk Tides, 7-0, in Charlotte. It was a familiar pattern: the Knights fell behind early,
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The Knights followed up their four-homer game on Saturday with three more today. But, like so many games against the Bulls this year, it wasn’t quite enough, as Durham rallied for a 9-4 win. Mikie Mahtook hit his 25th round tripper on the year in the bottom of first with one on. It was his
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This one had promise, with back-to-back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the first by Adam Engel, Mikie Mahtook and Micker Adolfo. But it went downhill quickly from there, and the Durham Bulls rolled to a 9-5 win in Charlotte Saturday night. Knights’ starter John Parke came into the game on the heels of three
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Fresh off his first major-league win, Jimmy Lambert took the mound tonight, hoping to help the Charlotte Knights finally get into the victory column against the Durham Bulls in game four of this home stand. Ten days ago, Lambert looked terrific beating the Oakland As with five innings of three-hit ball. It was more of
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The Knights’ improved pitching kept the team in a lot of games on the recently-concluded two-week road trip even as the offense struggled. But the staff had no such luck tonight in a 6-2 loss against the division-leading Durham Bulls in Charlotte. Starter Alex McRae gave up five hits and three earned runs in the first
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The Kannapolis Cannon Ballers brewed momentum into the final week of the 2021 campaign. The form comes after a six-game split with the Fayetteville Woodpeckers in their final homestand of the season. Series W-L: 3-3 Season W-L: 35-77, 33 GB of the Down East Wood Ducks Batting: .213/.330/.367 Slash, 27 R, 40 H, 17 XBH,
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Jake Burger roared back from a mini-slump and newly acquired Ruben Tejada delivered two clutch hits — and in so doing may be putting himself in consideration for a postseason roster spot with the White Sox — in an otherwise down week for the Knights. The team wrapped up the second half of a
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On a rather nice September afternoon and with the home finale looming, the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers secured a 6-2 win over the Fayetteville Woodpeckers. It was the home finale at Atrium Health Ballpark for the 2021 campaign. The team had one of their best arms take to the mound in Matt Thompson. The FutureSox No.
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