Charlotte Knights 9, Nashville Sounds 2
Old friend Jonathan Cannon took the hill for the Knights and promptly served up a run in the first on a couple of doubles. But Charlotte (48-42) came out swinging in the bottom half, hanging a six-spot on the board with three bombs: Nate Jones with a three-run shot, Andy Weber with a two-run blast, and Riley Unroe chipping in a solo.
The Sounds managed a solo homer in response, but that was it for their offense as the Knights’ hurlers kept them off the board for the next seven innings. Unroe wasn’t done, launching a two-run dinger in the fifth, and the Knights scraped together another in the sixth thanks to a Rikuu Nishida double and a Michael Turner single. Cannon finished with five innings of two-run ball, allowing five hits and two walks while striking out four. Tanner McDougal spun a clean inning with a strikeout, and Duncan Davitt closed it out with three scoreless, one hit, five Ks. Not too shabby.
Who was the Knights MVP?
Rikuu Nishida: 1-for-5, R, 2B, K
Edgar Quero: 1-for-4, BB