Oklahoma City stays hot on road with 10-1 win over Charlotte

Oklahoma City kept its road surge rolling with another convincing finish, beating the Charlotte Knights 10-1 on Wednesday afternoon at Truist Field. The Comets were locked in from the fifth inning on, piled up runs in bunches and never let Charlotte turn the game into a race.

The breakthrough came after four scoreless innings, when Oklahoma City used a double steal and a Charlotte throwing error to score twice in the fifth and grab a 2-0 lead. Charlotte answered with a run in the bottom of the inning, but the Knights left the bases loaded and never fully recovered. Oklahoma City then blew the game open in the sixth with five more runs, added one on a balk in the seventh and finished with two in the ninth to turn a close contest into a rout.

Jack Suwinski set the tone at the plate, homering as part of a three-hit afternoon. He has gone deep in consecutive games for the third time this season, and over his last four games he has gone 10-for-15 with five extra-base hits. Oklahoma City finished with 10 hits and no errors, while Charlotte produced 10 hits of its own, drew five walks and was hit by pitches twice but stranded 16 runners, a season high that showed how many chances slipped away.

The pitching side was just as important. Oklahoma City arms combined for a season-high 16 strikeouts, and the club has piled up 30 strikeouts over the first two games of the series. River Ryan, the Charlotte native and Huntersville resident, started for the Comets and worked effectively in front of a crowd that included plenty of early-day baseball traffic at the ballpark. Jonathan Cannon took the loss for Charlotte as the Knights fell to 35-30.

The win pushed Oklahoma City to 37-27, matched its season high at 10 games over .500 and gave the Comets their third straight victory. It also fit the larger shape of a six-game interleague series that runs through June 14 and marks the first time Charlotte has ever hosted the Dodgers’ Triple-A affiliate at Truist Field. For Los Angeles, nights like this matter because Oklahoma City is not just winning, it is doing so away from home, with production from hitters like Suwinski and a pitching staff that kept Charlotte under pressure from start to finish.