White Sox Minor League Update: April 8, 2022

Adam Hackenberg safe at home, pictured in a game last year. This is also how safe Adam Hackenberg was on Friday after hitting two home runs in one game for the Dash. The Knights. What can you say about the Knights? Their pitching was not good tonight, but their hitting was also very bad. Mark Payton drew a walk to lead off the game, but he was the last baserunner until Seby Zavala’s fourth-inning double, which was also the team’s first hit. Their sole run was manufactured in the sixth, when Adam Haseley walked, Ryder Jones singled him to third, and Patrick Kivlehan, who’s been doing it all for the Knights, knocked him in with a single. As a team, the Knights drew four walks total and gathered five hits; to be fair, for the first four innings they were up against Orioles top prospect Grayson Rodriguez, who allowed just one hit, one walk, and no runs en route to striking out seven.

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