White Sox Minor League Replace: September 23, 2022

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The Knights beat the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp in hitting, pitching, protection, scoring runs, and baseball, giving them their eighth win of September and bringing their file to 57-88.

Beginning pitcher Scott Blewett has struggled in AAA all three seasons he’s pitched there (spending components of two years with the Omaha Stormchasers). Lately promoted to Charlotte after posting a 5.03 ERA in 111 innings with the Barons, Blewett allowed 5 runs in six innings in the present day, reducing his Knights ERA by way of three begins to 12.75. He didn’t, nevertheless, stroll a batter, and did exit with a everlasting lead for the win.

The primary half of the sport was a death-by-a-thousand-cuts scenario, the Knights scoring one run every within the second, third, fourth, and fifth. Lenyn Sosa began by mashing his ninth dong on the stage to steer off the second.

Within the third, Zach Remillard was hit by a pitch, stole second, Mark Payton walked, and Yolbert Sánchez singled in Remillard; Payton was out at third on the throw.

The fourth inning featured a Blake Rutherford leadoff double, adopted up by an Xavier Fernández double that didn’t end result within the run scoring. Craig Dedelow was hit by a pitch to load the bases, Remillard grounded right into a power out at house, then Payton got here by way of with a sacrifice fly earlier than Jake Burger struck out; Burger was 1-for-5 in his return from the Injured Record.

Within the fifth, the Knights clogged the basepaths; Sosa hit an infield single with one out, Adam Haseley singled him to second, and Rutherford singled too core Sosa and make it 4-1 Knights.

4 of Blewett’s 5 runs got here in a catastrophic backside of the sixth the place the Jumbo Shrimp took a 5-4 lead all earlier than there have been two outs, that inning containing a double, three singles, one house run, and one run-scoring balk.

Nonetheless, they underestimated the bat of Payton, who has completely torn up the ball, one half-inning later; after a gradual begin, he entered this sport batting .308/.387/.586 because the starting of Might, with 24 of his 25 house runs coming in that timespan. Rutherford, Dedelow, and Remillard all walked to load the bases for him with two outs, and whereas he didn’t go deep, he did merely clear the bases along with his thirty first double of the 12 months, placing the Knights up for good 7-5.

JB Olson, Sammy Peralta, and Matt Foster have been all scoreless in aid; Peralta has but to surrender a run in three Knights appearances (4 innings).

The Knights had 13 hits, 4 walks, and two hit by pitches; they have been 4-for-14 with runners in scoring place.