Knights rally from four runs down, beat Durham 7-5 for fifth straight win
Down 4-0 after one inning, Charlotte answered with 11 hits and five different run-producing swings to beat Durham 7-5 and keep its streak alive.
Charlotte’s best answer was not to the scoreboard in the first inning but to the punch that came with it. After Durham opened with four runs and chased Joe Rock before the inning ended, the Knights settled in, leaned on a patched-together bullpen and walked out of Durham Bulls Athletic Park with a 7-5 win that pushed their streak to five.
That kind of rebound is what makes a hot Triple-A club worth watching. Charlotte did not just survive the early hole, it controlled the game from there. Jairo Iriarte, Adisyn Coffey, Garrett Schoenle and Peyton Pallette combined to cover 8.1 innings and allowed only one more run the rest of the way, turning what looked like a long night into a manageable climb.
The comeback started in the second when Dru Baker lined an RBI single to get Charlotte on the board. Everson Pereira followed in the third with a home run, trimming the deficit to one and shifting the pressure back onto Durham. Ryan Galanie tied it in the fourth with a solo shot, and from that point on the Knights played like the team with the better grip on the game.
Charlotte finally grabbed the lead in the seventh when Michael Turner drew a bases-loaded walk, then Galanie added a sacrifice fly to stretch the margin. Turner gave the Knights one more insurance run in the ninth with an RBI infield single. By the end, Charlotte had 11 hits and enough traffic on the bases to make the early four-run hole look like a bad opening page, not the whole story.
Braden Montgomery kept adding to the damage. The Chicago White Sox No. 2 prospect homered for the 10th time this season and the fourth time for Triple-A Charlotte, a reminder of why his line has stood out all year: .313 batting average, .415 on-base percentage, .548 slugging percentage and a .963 OPS. For a 23-year-old with 10 home runs and 40 RBI in 55 minor-league games, that is not just production. It is a bat forcing its way into the conversation.
The win also underlined how thoroughly Charlotte has owned this trip to Durham. The Knights had already taken the first three games of the series, including an 18-7 win in 11 innings on June 3 and an 11-6 win on June 4, after opening the road trip with a 6-1 victory on June 2. Saturday’s rally made the statement even louder: Charlotte is not just winning, it is winning different ways.
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