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Wings Almost Get No-Hit In Loss

By: Thad Brown

Updated: May 28, 2012

Terry Doyle took a no-hitter into the eighth inning and the Charlotte Knights defeated the Rochester Red Wings 4-1 on Memorial Day for their sixth straight victory. The Knights are now six games above .500 at 29-23 and they have won the first five games of this eight-game homestand.

Doyle (4-3, 3.05) only gave up the one hit over 7.1 innings with three strikeouts and two walks. He has now won his last three starts and notched his first home win of the season. Eight of his last nine starts he has gone six innings or more.

The Knights took the lead in the third inning thanks to the bottom of the order. Drew Garcia and Ozzie Martinez singled and doubled respectively to start the inning and an RBI by Greg Golson and Tyler Kuhn made it 2-0 Charlotte.

Consecutive hits by Dan Johnson, Josh Phegley, and Jordan Danks made it 3-0 Knights in the sixth. Ray Olmedo stayed hot with an RBI double that scored Phegley and made it 4-0. Olmedo now has a nine-game hitting streak.

On Sunday, the Wings did not get a runner past second base in a 1-0 loss to Gwinnett. Pedro Florimon's 9th inning home run ended a streak of 19 innings where the Wings did not get even a single runner to third base.

Game 2 of the series is Tuesday at 7:15 p.m. at Knights Stadium. The Knights will send Dylan Axelrod (4-1, 1.20) to the mound to square off with Nick Blackburn, who is down from the Minnesota Twins on a Major League rehab assignment.