We’re adapting how we’re going to cover the White Sox minors for the last two months of the season. Each night we will TRY to put together a recap of one of the (likely) four games on the schedule, with possible additional notes about the other games. That will continue to give our faithful readers a bit of a fix each night.

However, at the start of the week, we will run out five weekly updates that will detail the goings-on in the system. On Sunday, I will start with a Charlotte Knights weekly recap, touching on each game and highlighting the best and worst of the week. Monday or thereabouts will see Kristina Airdo weighing in on the Birmingham Barons week, and Joe Resis tapping into the Winston-Salem Dash. Tuesday we’ll aim to wrap the wraps up with Melissa Sage-Bollenbach on the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers, and Joe coming back for a second helping with his Players of the Week.

Kannapolis Cannon Ballers 15, Salem Red Sox 4
The clear class of the organization resides in Low-A, with our 56-42 Ballers, and tonight they took a solid Red Sox team (51-47 coming in) to the shed.

Funny thing though, until the sixth inning, this was anybody’s game — and likely Salem’s. Trailing 4-2, Kanny went ham on the Red Sox bullpen, running up 13 runs in the final three frames. In piling up 18 hits in the game, everyone in the lineup but cleanup hitter Arxy Hernández (0-for-6, K) had a hit. Wilder still, it was the hind end of the order, No. 6 through 9, who carried Kanny to the win, combining to go 14-for-18 with 12 runs and nine RBIs. Jeral Perez (1-for-4, 2B, 3 RBI, BB, HBP, 2 K, E) made his organizational debut at shortstop after coming over from the Dodgers in Monday’s three-way trade.

GAME MVP
Alvaro Agüero (LF) 3-for-5, 2 R, 3 RBI, 2B, HR, K, 24.1% WPA

RUNNERS-UP
Luis Pineda (C) 4-for-4, 4 R, 3B, RBI, 1-for-2 CS, 23.6% WPA
Mason Dinesen (1B) 4-for-5, 3 R, 2 RBI, SB, 11.4% WPA
Drake Logan (CF) 3-for-4, 3 R, 3 RBI, 2B, HR, BB, GIDP
Ronny Hernandez (DH) 1-for-1, 3 R, 4 BB
Jesús Méndez (RHRP) 2 IP, H, BB, K, 17-of-25 strikes

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Alvaro Agüero photo by Chris L. Phillips/Instagram