Rain suspends Jacksonville, Charlotte tied 2-2 in fifth inning
Agustín Ramírez and Korey Lee traded two-run homers before rain froze Jacksonville and Charlotte at 2-2 in the fifth.
Rain did not erase the baseball that mattered. Jacksonville and Charlotte had already traded two-run swings, and when storms finally stopped play Wednesday night, the clubs were still deadlocked 2-2 in the bottom of the fifth at Truist Field.
Jacksonville struck first in the opening inning. Rece Hinds reached with a two-out single, and Agustín Ramírez followed by driving a two-run home run, his third of the season, to put the Jumbo Shrimp ahead 2-0. Charlotte answered with the kind of inning that can turn a game and a series: Junior Perez singled, an error helped extend the frame, and Korey Lee finished the rally by launching a two-run homer to bring the Knights even.
That was the last completed inning before the weather took over. Charlotte’s tying push came against Jacksonville starter Hagen Smith, with walks to Mario Camilletti and Caden Connor helping set the table before Lee’s blast erased the early deficit. The game then sat through a 59-minute delay before being suspended with the score still tied and the fifth inning incomplete.
What carries over Thursday is the tension, not a fresh start. The suspended game is set to resume at 4:30 p.m. ET and be played out to nine innings from the point of interruption, while the originally scheduled Thursday game has been shortened to seven innings and remains set for 7:04 p.m. ET. Coverage of the de facto doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 4:15 p.m. on ESPN 690AM and ESPN690.com.
In Triple-A, that matters because one storm cell can reshape a night’s worth of bullpen work, lineup choices and developmental innings. Jacksonville has to finish the same game state with the same lead it built and then lost, while Charlotte gets a chance to press in the extra innings left on the board. A game that was already tied in the middle of the fifth now becomes a test of who can manage the compressed schedule better when the action restarts.
The stakes are not small for either club. Jacksonville entered as the 2025 International League and Triple-A national champion, and the Jumbo Shrimp also remain a fixture in Northeast Florida’s baseball market, where the franchise has led the state in minor league attendance since its rebrand before the 2017 season. Thursday will show whether the night’s first half was only a snapshot, or the setup for a broader swing in the series.
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