Kannapolis won to keep its season alive, while Great Falls lost the opener of a best-of-three Pioneer League Championship Series against Ogden. Both teams need to win two games in two days to end up on top.
Before we get to the box scores, some White Sox farm system news and notes ...
*The Kannapolis Intimidators seem like an unlikely subject for New York Times Magazine, but Chris Jones wrote an excellent article on 27-year-old manager Justin Jirschele. There isn’t one blurb that sums it all up, but this sets it up:
Jirschele had been promoted to a Double-A team in Birmingham, Ala.