PawSox's Bats Silenced by Knights, 4-2

The once potent Pawtucket Red Sox offense has been silenced of late, managing only one hit in their 4-2 loss to the Charlotte Knights last night in Rock Hill, SC. The loss matched the PawSox' longest losing streak of the season at three.

Jed Lowrie collected the PawSox' lone hit, a single in the fourth.

Pawtucket's two runs came without a hit in the top of the seventh, when Charlotte starter Charlie Haeger's and reliever Scott Sauerbeck had trouble finding the plate. In the frame the Charlotte pitchers walked four, threw two wild pitches, and hit a batter.

The PawSox frustrations also rushed to the surface in the seventh as both outfielder Bobby Kielty and Manager Ron Johnson were ejected arguing balls and strikes with home plate umpire Justin Vogel.

The game was scoreless until the bottom of the sixth when the Knights scored all their runs off PawSox reliever Hunter Jones (1-2). As was the case when the Knights scored six runs in the seventh on Tuesday night, they used small ball to do their damage last night. They pounded out five singles and a double to account for their four runs.

Lost in the Pawtucket offensive drought was the strong pitching performance by PawSox starter Clay Buchholz. He pitched five scoreless innings, allowing three hits, striking out three and walking two. He threw 82 pitches, 49 for strikes.

Despite the rough seventh inning, Haeger (4-4) picked up his fourth win of the season. Jason Childers notched his third save.

Chris Getz and Fernando Cortez each collected two hits and drove in a run for Charlotte.

The only offensive news other than Lowrie's single for Pawtucket was that Brandon Moss' 12-game hitting streak came to an end.

The two teams will play game three of their series tonight (7:15 pm) when David Pauley (7-2, 3.78 ERA) takes the mound for Pawtucket against Lance Broadway (5-3, 2.95 ERA) for the Knights.

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