Camilletti's walk-off single lifts Charlotte past Nashville in 10 innings

Charlotte won the kind of game that Triple-A teams usually lose when one detail slips. Mario Camilletti delivered a one-out, opposite-field single in the bottom of the 10th, lifting the Knights past Nashville 3-2 at Truist Field and giving Charlotte its fourth walk-off in eight home victories.

The finish came after a night built on thin margins. Rikuu Nishida laid down a sacrifice bunt to move the winning runner into scoring position, then Nashville intentionally walked Jarred Kelenic before shifting an extra outfielder into the infield. Camilletti still beat the alignment, lining the ball where the defense was not and sealing his second walk-off hit of the season. Less than two weeks earlier, he had ended another game against Memphis with a tenth-inning, opposite-field single, and Charlotte keeps finding the same late-game answer in the same bat.

The middle innings were tighter than the final score suggests. Kelenic opened the scoring with a 404-foot home run in the first inning, Nashville answered in the second, and the Sounds grabbed a 2-1 lead with an RBI single in the seventh. Charlotte answered immediately when Ryan Galanie crushed a 422-foot homer in the bottom of the seventh to tie it at 2-2, turning the game back into a bullpen test instead of an offensive track meet.

That is where Charlotte held its ground. Tanner McDougal started and worked effectively before leaving in the fourth, and Tyler Schweitzer, Zach Franklin and Brandon Eisert helped keep Nashville from creating separation. In a game with 8,204 fans, a 7:12 p.m. EDT first pitch and a total time of 2 hours and 49 minutes, every outsized moment mattered: a sacrifice bunt, an intentional walk, a defensive adjustment, a homer that barely changed the temperature, then Camilletti making the final swing count. Charlotte moved to 11-12 with a win that said more about leverage, composure and execution than about raw offense. It also added another chapter to a series that had already seen Nashville beat Charlotte 7-3 in the Sounds’ home opener on March 31.