While the big club continued its losing ways, Ryan Galanie went off for the Dash and Hagen Smith dominated in Birmingham.

Detroit Tigers 7, Chicago White Sox 2 OK, well, after a delightful starting run last week the White Sox rotation is back in tatters, as Davis Martin went from zero earned runs on his ticket in his first start to seven today. With eight hits and three walks, the White Sox had plenty of traffic on the bases but very little conversion. The White Sox drop to 2-6.

Norfolk Tides 3, Charlotte Knights 2 Charlotte’s high-octane offense saw its tank emptied, with just four hits in the game — and none until the eighth inning, when Dominic Fletcher led off with a single and Greg Jones Jr. homered. Jairo Iriarte, with no run (or hit support), took the loss in a mediocre effort; he could only last four innings due to an inefficiency.

Knoxville Lookouts 6, Birmingham Barons 4 One good turn deserves another, it seems, as rival Knoxville scored three in the top of the ninth to win it. Tyler Davis pitched at four White Sox levels in the minors last year, skipping only Birmingham; thus, this massive meltdown comes in his first official Barons game (three earned runs, getting yanked with two outs). Worse, at least in a Prospect Watchers sense, is that Davis’ folly erased an outstanding game from starter Hagen Smith, who went four hitless innings with 10 strikeouts! However, Smith did give up a run, in the most Hagen Smith way imaginable; between a rain delay and possibly nerves, Smith was wild in the first, wild-pitching a run home after two walks; the three outs in the inning were all by K.

Winston-Salem Dash 16, Rome Emperors 6 The game started out modestly for the Dash, as they were trailing, 3-1, through three innings. But then, the visitors erupted for six runs in the fourth, and later put a five-spot on the board in the seventh, powered by a late-starting but soon relentless attack. Ryan Galanie and Jeral Perez both had three hits, with Galanie hitting a triple and grand slam in a six-RBI day.

Hickory Crawdads 6, Kannapolis Cannon Ballers 5 After an 0-fer debut, top outfield prospect Braden Montgomery had a 2-for-4 night that included his first pro home run. It wasn’t enough, however, as the CBs rallied to with in one in the bottom of the eighth: With Montgomery in fact on second base after a single and stolen base with three runs already in, Lyle Miller-Green grounded out and Casey Saucke whiffed to extinguish the rally.

Ryan Galanie photo courtesy of Winston-Salem Dash.

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