Memphis Red Birds 9, Charlotte Knights 4 (Statcast box)
Jonathan Cannon, another day, another mess. He allowed a run in the first before getting a single out, found his groove for a minute, then promptly handed Memphis a solo bomb and a wild pitch in the fifth. Just like that, Redbirds up 3-0 and Charlotte (4-5) already on the ropes.
Then came the sixth, and the wheels flew off. Tyson Miller, 30 and still getting shelled, got torched for six runs, the exclamation point a three-run blast. By the time
the carnage stopped, it was 9-1 Memphis, and the Knights were just playing out the string.
A couple glimmers: Sam Antonacci and William Bergolla Jr. kept raking up top, with Bergolla’s heater now at a cartoonish .517/.576/.655, with a 1.231 OPS. Korey Lee finally got on the board with his first dinger of the year. The Knights even showed a pulse late, but the real story? Missed chances everywhere. Charlotte went 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position, and left ten ducks on the pond. All that traffic, but no payoff.
Chattanooga Lookouts 5, Birmingham Barons 4
The Barons (2-2) spotted Chattanooga three runs in the first two frames, then spent the rest of the night clawing back, only to lose it in extras, 5-4. Calvin Harris chipped in a sac fly to get them on the board in the second, and Jeral Perez lashed a two-run double to tie it up in the third. From there, it was trench warfare until Adam Fogel finally poked an RBI single in the seventh to give Birmingham its first taste of the lead, 4-3.
Unfortunately, the advantage evaporated in the eighth. On to bonus baseball, where the Lookouts cashed in their ghost runner while the Barons managed to get theirs thrown out at the plate on a fielder’s choice. Even after that letdown, they managed to load the bases with two outs, but Rikuu Nishida went down on three straight strikes right down the middle. It was a winnable game, gift-wrapped and handed right back to the Lookouts.
Winston-Salem Dash 7, Frederick Keys 6 (10 innings)
The Winston-Salem Dash (2-2) pulled off a wild one in a rare afternoon contest. The Dash took down the Keys in 10 frames, recovering from a late-game collapse with some extra-innings magic. The Dash jumped ahead early with a two-run second and added insurance in the fifth and eighth to build a 4-2 lead, but the Keys stormed back in the ninth, plating two runs to tie the game at four.
In the 10th, the Keys took advantage of a pair of errors and an RBI single to grab a 6-4 advantage, putting Winston-Salem on the brink of taking the L. But the Dash answered quickly in the bottom half, starting with an RBI triple from Ryan Burrowes, followed by a game-tying sac fly from Caleb Bonemer. With two outs and the winning run on second, Alec Makarewicz delivered the decisive blow, lining a walk-off single to cap the comeback.
Hickory Crawdads 4, Kannapolis Cannon Ballers 3
Kanny (1-3) capitalized on early traffic in the first, turning a Jaden Fauske hit-by-pitch and a Billy Carlson walk into aggressive baserunning and timely hitting. RBI singles from Stiven Flores and Arxy Hernández plated three to take a quick 3-0 lead. But the offense ran dry, and the runs would stop there.
Caedmon Parker, a 15th-round pick in 2025, got the start for Kannapolis and did his part, keeping the Crawdads (3-1) off the board for four frames. He surrendered two hits, three walks, and struck out three
The Ballers nursed their slim lead through most of the contest until Hickory finally broke it open, tying it in the eighth and swiping the game 4-3 in the ninth. Kanny’s last gasp, a two-out walk to Fauske, fizzled, and that was that as this one slipped away late.
