The Knights are 23-23 in the second half of the season. Tuesday night at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre they trailed 8-1 going into the eighth inning and won 9-8 in ten, the largest come-from-behind win Charlotte has managed all year.
Junior Perez opened the eighth with a two-run home run. Rikuu Nishida drove in the third run of the inning on a bases-loaded walk. The Knights went to the ninth down 8-4 with three outs left.
Those three outs took a while. Charlotte loaded the bases on two hit-by-pitches and a Perez infield single. Mario Camilletti cleared them with a three-run double to make it 8-7. Two batters later Andy Weber tied the game with an RBI single.
Jaden Woods pitched a scoreless bottom of the ninth to force extras.
Ryan Galanie's sacrifice fly in the tenth scored the automatic runner and gave Charlotte its first lead of the night. Caden Connor had driven in the game's opening run with a single in the top of the second, and the Knights had not been ahead since.
Garrett Schoenle finished it. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre began the bottom of the tenth with its automatic runner on second, and Schoenle left him there on two groundouts and a flyout.
Charlotte is 9-2 in extra-inning games this season and has allowed one extra-inning run, total, across those nine wins.
The Knights have played the other version of this game. In July they came from six down in the ninth against Nashville and lost 11-9 anyway.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre is 25-18 in the second half, third in the International League East and a half-game out of first. Charlotte is 65-56 overall, seventh in the East, four back of Rochester. Tuesday was game seven of a 12-game road trip that opened in Rochester, with five games left in Moosic beginning Wednesday at 7:05 p.m.
The Knights have 29 games left to make up four.