Charlotte rallies from five down, tops Rochester in 11 innings
Charlotte erased a five-run hole, pushed Rochester to 11 innings and won on Andy Weber’s RBI single, stretching its perfect extra-inning record to 6-0.
Charlotte turned a 6-1 deficit into a 7-6 win over Rochester in 11 innings on Thursday night at Truist Field, getting the winning run home when Andy Weber lined a single through the right side to score Korey Lee. The Knights, who entered at 42-34, outlasted the Red Wings in a game that started at 7:04 p.m. ET.
Rochester looked in control early, building its lead to 6-1 through four innings while Charlotte’s only immediate answer came on a Ryan Galanie solo home run. The Knights chipped away with two runs in the fifth, then Korey Lee trimmed the deficit again with a solo homer in the seventh. Caden Connor delivered the comeback swing, launching a two-run homer in the eighth to tie the game at 6-6 and erase what had been a five-run hole.
Charlotte’s bullpen held the line after the early damage and gave the offense enough room to finish the job. Jairo Iriarte, Peyton Pallette, Garrett Schoenle and Ben Peoples combined for seven shutout innings, forcing the game into extra innings. Neither team scored in the ninth or 10th before Weber ended it in the 11th, with Lee racing home on the game-winning hit.
The Knights improved to a perfect 6-0 in extra-inning games and had outscored opponents 15-0 from the 10th inning on. Rochester, which entered the game at 46-28, fell to 6-4 in extra innings.
The win came in the middle of Charlotte’s six-game homestand against Rochester, which runs from June 23 through June 28. Charlotte had already beaten the Red Wings 10-2 on Wednesday, and the Knights followed that with a comeback that swung the series fully in their direction after a 10-9 loss on June 23, when they rallied from as many as eight runs down but came up short.
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