We’re not gonna be picky, a win’s a win, and maybe all White Sox games should run just seven innings. On the farm, every game was a blowout — including a no-hitter!

Chicago White Sox 3, Minnesota Twins 0 (7 innings) A rain-shortened game is a rare sight indeed, almost as rare as a White Sox save. Shane Smith, brilliant in the first month of his career, earned his first major league victory. Amazingly, in Game 25 for the 6-19 White Sox, the club earned its first save of the season: congrats, Brandon Eisert!

Charlotte Knights 10, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders 3 Jairo Iriarte had another rough start, falling behind 3-0 in his unintentional bid to be demoted to the bullpen. However Charlotte’s offense bailed Iriarte (yanked after one inning) out, with Tim Elko, Omar Narváez, and Elko again homering to put up seven runs on S/W-B. The Knights improve to 9-15.

Birmingham Barons 4, Rocket City Trash Pandas 2 (suspended in eighth inning, to resume April 25)

Winston-Salem Dash 12, Rome Emperors 2 You don’t expect a 12-2 game to be a no-hitter (no, not the 12 scored but the two against!), but that’s what happened here. Hats off to Tommy Vail, Frankeli Arias, Madison Jeffrey and Joseph Yabbour for spinning the 16th combined no-hitter in Winston-Salem Dash history! The culprit for the two runs was a wild Jeffrey, who had no-hit stuff but also no-strike stuff. Offensively it was many of the usual suspects leading the hit parade, including Ryan Galanie, Jeral Perez and Alex Makerewicz. Unfortunately a no-hitter still counts as just one win, and the Dash are now 6-12.

Kannapolis Cannon Ballers 6, Myrtle Beach Pelicans 1 (Game 1) (7 innings) This was a Christian Oppor gem, as the southpaw threw five strong innings and allowed just two hits, one walk and one run against eight strikeouts. Offensively the top highlight was an RBI triple by Caleb Bonemer.

Myrtle Beach Pelicans 10, Kannapolis Cannon Ballers 2 (Game 2) (7 innings) All good things end, and doggone it Kanny couldn’t sweep a twinbill on the road. The fifth inning did the CBs in, as Justin Sinibaldi (no-hitting the Pelicans through 4 ⅓ ) took some body blows from Myrtle Beach that knocked him from the game and saw 10 runs score off of four Cannon Ballers pitchers.

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