Triple-A: Charlotte Knights (White Sox) 7, Norfolk Tides 6
It was a wild one in Charlotte, where the Tides rallied back from a three-run deficit in the ninth, took a lead in the top of the 10th, and then got walked off in the bottom of the inning. Korey Lee’s two-run single off Cam Sanders won it for the Knights.
Before that, Enrique Bradfield Jr. twice played the hero for Norfolk. He delivered both the game-tying RBI single in the ninth and the go-ahead RBI single in the 10th. With a 3-for-6 night, Bradfield boosted his OPS to .676, which is not going to be
enough to earn him a promotion yet but is at least a step in the right direction. Bradfield had a stolen base but was also caught once. Heston Kjerstad was 3-for-4 with a double. Catcher Creed Willems, a possible call-up candidate himself, went 0-for-4 but could hardly be a worse hitter than Sam Huff and Chadwick Tromp.
On the mound, starter Trey Gibson gave up two runs in four innings. The only one of the five Tides pitchers not to be scored upon was reliever Yosver Zulueta, who retired all four batters he faced. Former Oriole Austin Hays, on a rehab assignment with Charlotte, went 0-for-3 but had two RBIs.
Double-A: Erie SeaWolves (Tigers) 4, Chesapeake Baysox 1
Patrick Reilly, returning from Tommy John surgery, made his first start with Chesapeake since April 19, 2025. He had six strikeouts and no walks, but coughed up three solo home runs, including one by Josue Briceño, the Tiger’s #3 prospect. All in all, it was a solid return for Reilly, one of the Orioles’ better pitching prospects.
The Baysox offense was facing rehabbing major leaguer Jackson Jobe and had little answer for him. Their only run of the game came on an Anderson De Los Santos first-inning RBI double. That was one of just four hits for Chesapeake, though three of them were doubles.
High-A: Rome Emperors (Braves) 10, Frederick Keys 1 — Game 1
The first game of a doubleheader was a big ol’ mess for the Keys, who couldn’t hit, pitch, or field. Starter JT Quinn ran into big trouble in the fourth and was chased without getting out of the inning. In 3.2 frames he was tagged for four runs, but only two were earned because Frederick committed four errors (including one by Quinn himself). Reliever Juan Rojas was torched for five runs in one inning.
The Keys’ lineup is much less intimidating after Ike Irish’s season-ending meniscus tear. Their only run in this game came on an RJ Austin single that plated Wehiwa Aloy, who had doubled. Two rehabbing Triple-A players, Reed Trimble and Payton Eeles, were a combined 0-for-8.
High-A: Frederick Keys 3, Rome Emperors 2 — Game 2
The Keys got even fewer hits in the nightcap — just three! — but managed to turn them into three runs and salvage a doubleheader split. And they did it against lefty Cam Caminiti, the Braves’ #1 prospect. (Fun fact: Caminiti is a cousin of the late MLB star Ken Caminiti, even though they were born 43 years apart.) The Keys scraped across their runs on a Colin Yeaman RBI single and a Caminiti wild pitch. The normally seven-inning doubleheader game went to extras tied at two, and Nelson Figueroa’s sac fly in the eighth won it for Frederick.
The pitching quartet of Carson Dorsey, Trent Turzenski, Braeden Sloan, and Chandler Marsh held down the Emperors, helped by the fact that Rome went 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position. Marsh fanned two in a perfect eighth for the save.
Low-A: Hill City Howlers (Guardians) 8, Delmarva Shorebirds 4
It was a rough night for starter Dalton Neuschwander, who gave up seven runs in four innings to fall to 1-9 on the season. His ERA rose to 7.98. The Shorebirds scored four runs but didn’t get much help from the first three batters in the lineup, who were a combined 0-for-12. Third baseman Elvin Garcia and shortstop Jose Perez each had two hits, and second baseman Felix Amparo contributed an RBI double.
BONUS FCL NOTE: Kudos to the short-season Florida Complex League Orioles, who made it to the League Championship Series after going 34-23 this season. “Series” is a bit of a misnomer, since it’s just one game, and unfortunately the FCL Orioles’ run ended yesterday against the Astros. They were shut out, 7-0, by right-handers Adrian Ardines and Jank Pichardo. The O’s managed only five hits, all singles, two of them by 2025 ninth-round pick Cam Lee.
Third baseman Wilfri De La Cruz, acquired in last year’s Andrew Kittredge trade, was 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. He had a .707 OPS in 51 games in his first full season in the organization. Second baseman Jemone Nuel, a 19-year-old from Jamaica, was 1-for-4 in the leadoff spot, finishing with an outstanding .283/.456/.483 line in 50 games.
Sunday’s scheduled games:
- Norfolk: at Charlotte, 1:05 PM. Starter: Trace Bright (0-7, 7.32)
- Chesapeake: vs. Erie, 1:05 PM. Starter: Luis De León (4-6, 4.58)
- Frederick: at Rome, 1:00 PM. Starter: Boston Bateman (4-3, 4.10)
- Delmarva: at Hill City, 2:00 PM. Starter: Brayan Orrantia (0-6, 5.54)
