Knights Hand Indians 6-5 Defeat in 10 Innings

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -Clay Holmes struck out eight over seven innings, but Dustin Garneau delivered a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Knights a walk-off win over the Indians on Friday night, 6-5. The Tribe fell to 1-4 on the seven-game International League South Division road trip.

Playing in just their fourth extra-inning game of the season and first on the road, the Indians (51-45) failed to score in the top of the 10th against Carson Fulmer. The Knights (46-52) then loaded the bases with no outs in the home half to set up Garneau's heroics, giving Charlotte its seventh walk-off victory.
Casey Sadler (L, 5-5) suffered the loss while Fulmer (W, 5-5) fanned two to pick up the win.
Indianapolis led after a half-inning thanks to a pair of singles by Adam Frazier and Austin Meadows and RBI double by cleanup hitter José Osuna down the left-field line. Knights starter Jordan Stephens struck out Kevin Kramer and Jason Martin to strand two runners in scoring position, however, and Eloy Jiménez's bat took over from there.
After the Knights pulled even on a Charlie Tilson groundout that plated Jacob May, who hit a leadoff triple, Jimenez cranked an 0-2 pitch by Clay Holmes over the wall in right-center for his fourth Triple-A dinger.
Charlotte added two more runs in the third to go up 4-1. Tilson and Jimenez laced back-to-back doubles before a Matt Skole run-scoring single.
The Tribe began chipping away at the deficit in the fifth. Kevin Newman doubled and scored on a Frazier RBI single to right, his career-high fifth straight game with at least one RBI.
Jimenez's second blast came on another 0-2 pitch in the bottom of the fifth, but the Indians scored single runs in each of the next three frames to level the game at 5-5. Sacrifice flies by Jackson Williams and Meadows brought Indy within one, and Williams scored Martin with a single to center in the eighth.
Holmes took a no-decision after allowing five earned runs on 10 hits and two walks.
Damien Magnifico recorded six outs in relief of Holmes to run his scoreless streak to 10 innings. He pitched a perfect eighth and left the bases full in the ninth.
Eight of Indy's nine regulars tallied at least one hit, led by multi-hit performances from Frazier (3-for-5) and Kramer (2-for-5).
The Tribe left 10 runners on base and went just 3-for-17 with runners in scoring position.
The Indians are now 1-3 in extra innings.
The Indians and Knights meet again on Saturday night at 7:04 p.m. EDT. Indy right-hander Tyler Eppler (9-4, 3.21) will oppose Charlotte left-hander Matt Tomshaw (2-1, 9.78).