White Sox Minor League Recap: June 6, 2025

Charlotte, Birmingham, and Winston-Salem deliver big wins

Charlotte Knights 14, Lehigh Valley IronPigs 2 (Statcast box)
The Knights trampled the IronPigs in a blowout win that included 16 hits, two home runs, and six walks. While there are several highlights, two are worth mentioning.

Charlotte’s relievers looked like a cohesive bullpen. After Yoendrys Gómez made his first start of the season, the bullpen limited Lehigh Valley to five hits, one run, two walks, and three strikeouts over 6 ⅔ frames. Jairo Iriarte took the win from the night despite allowing the bullpen’s only run, and Adisyn Coffey, Justin Anderson, and Peyton Pallette shut the game down from there.

Juan Gonzalez made his Knights and season debut, taking Kyle Teel’s place behind the dish, and boy, did he make an immediate impact. Gonzalez drove in Charlotte’s first run of the game in the third with an RBI double. He later scored Charlotte’s seventh run late in the game on a bases-loaded walk.

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Birmingham Barons 11, Rocket City Trash Pandas 6
Birmingham raced away with the lead after the second inning. Tied at two apiece, the Ryan Galanie knocked in the next two runs in the third and fourth innings with a RBI single and a bases-loaded walk. Jacob Gonzalez tacked on another run in the fourth with his own RBI ground out. Jason Matthews added another run with a RBI double in the sixth before a five-run seventh inning put the Trash Pandas out of sight, making it 11-2 Birmingham.

While Tyler Davis and Eric Adler each allowed two runs in their three innings combined, the Trash Pandas struggled to move runners. Rocket City was 4-for-17 with runners in scoring position and stranded 10 on the bases. Once again, the Barons kept the hits coming and had enough solid pitching to put away another game.

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Winston-Salem Dash 8, Asheville Tourists 1 (7 innings)
Winston-Salem handed Asheville its 30th loss with an efficient win. The Dash made good use of their 10 hits in this shortened affair. Sam Antonacci made a statement in his second game back from the 7-day IL, driving a home run to right-center field in the fourth inning. Alec Makarewicz followed up with a solo home run of his own two innings later. Jeral Perez and Terrell Taum also had busy nights, driving in a pair of runs each off of doubles.

Tanner McDougal had a tough time commanding the strike zone, but he got away with allowing a run over 4 2⁄3 innings pitched thanks to Winston-Salem’s generous lead. Morris Austin luckily had an easy 1 1⁄3 innings to turn the lights off.

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Myrtle Beach Pelicans 5, Kannapolis Cannon Ballers 3 (10 innings)
Kannapolis came up short in extras, despite tying the game in the ninth.

Lyle Miller-Green’s fifth-inning rocket was the only run for Kannapolis until the ninth. Down 2-1, Nathan Archer drove George Wolkow in from second with a line drive single with one out. While T.J McCants and Abraham Núñez ended the Ballers’ chances of walking the game off by going down on back-to-back strikeouts, Kannapolis at least fought their way back.

But the CBs only had one comeback in them. After walking the leadoff hitter, Wardquelin Vasquez gave up the go-ahead, two-run homer to Cameron Cisneros. While the Ballers gained a run from Caleb Bonemer’s grounder, Ronny Hernandez and Miguel Santos struck out to end Kannapolis’ chances of an extra-innings win.

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ACL Padres 9, ACL White Sox 8
The White Sox started out slow, caught up to San Diego, and then quickly lost their momentum in a disappointing loss.

Adrian Gil grabbed the lead for the Sox with a RBI grounder, but Jordany Chirinos’ yielded a three-run triple to let San Diego take the lead for the bulk of the game. Entering the seventh, the Sox trailed by four, and everyone else looked checked out. But that changed rapidly.

The Sox’s four-run sixth inning was a team effort. Grant Smith cut the lead to three with a RBI double, then Gil whittled the lead to one with a two-run RBI single, and Mason Dinesen brought Gil in to tie it up. Once things looked up, the tides quickly turned back in favor of San Diego, as Marco Barrios let the Padres respond with a three-run home run for the go-ahead win in the eighth.

The Complex Sox had one last spurt in them, as back-to-back doubles by Stiven Flores and Dinesen chiseled one run from the 9-6 deficit, and Leandro Alsinois singled in Dinesen to bring the winning run to the plate. But a fly out and K left the game oh-so-close as time expired.