The Knights got beaten by good pitching, plain and simple. With the 5-1 loss to the Sounds, Charlotte (13-14) is now a game under .500, which feels about right. Starter Jake Curtis got crushed in the second giving up a three-run bomb, and Nashville just kept piling on.
It was a home run derby, but only for Nashville. Ben Peoples served up another in the sixth, then Tyler Schweitzer joined the fun in the seventh allowing a solo shot. It was now 5-0, and the Knights looked lost. No answers, just more misery.
Meanwhile, the Knights’ bats were in witness protection with no hits through four. Mario Camilletti finally knocked a single in the fifth, Oliver Dunn had a base hit in the sixth, and Caden Connor with one in the seventh but those were the only signs of life. The lone run was a late, desperate eighth-inning scramble on a Rikuu Nishida single, Jacob Gonzalez walk, and LaMonte Wade Jr. RBI single…