A close Charlotte loss, but one of the few instances that bullpening did not go horribly wrong. Eight pitchers up, and they all went out to get three outs — no more, no less. Three of them did not succeed in getting those three outs before somebody scored. On the good end, Tanner Banks, Kade McClure, and Bennett Sousa got through their inning a-OK. Not coincidentally, these are three pitchers who could be back in Chicago one day.
The offense was not great. The lineup was no-hit until the eighth inning. While the no-hitter was avoided, Charlotte only had two hits and struck out 11 times (everybody in the lineup whiffed at least once).