Moncada stays hot with three hits for Knights

Getting Yoán Moncada out has become an increasingly difficult task.
MLB.com's No. 1 overall prospect went 3-for-4 with a walk and two runs scored on Wednesday before Triple-A Charlotte fell to Norfolk, 5-4, at BB&T Ballpark. Moncada has hit safely in his last nine games.

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The 21-year-old infielder led off the bottom of the first inning with a single to left field and later scored the game's first run on an infield single by Ryan Raburn. After grounding out to shortstop in the second, he singled to right and crossed the plate again on a sacrifice fly by Raburn in the fourth.

The top White Sox prospect legged out a single to first with one out in the sixth and walked in the eighth, but was stranded on both occasions. He finished with three hits for the second time in his last five games.
At the start of Moncada's nine-game hitting streak on April 22, his average sat at a season-low .286. Since then, the 2015 international signee has gone 15-for-38 (.395) to raise his average 44 points to .330. That number ranks fourth in the International League, while his .406 on-base percentage sits sixth.

Lucas Giolito (0-4), Chicago's second-ranked prospect, started for the Knights. The right-hander allowed all five Tides runs on seven hits and three walks while fanning five over 4 1/3 frames.
Stefan Crichton improved to 3-0 for Norfolk after giving up two hits and walking one while striking out four over 2 1/3 scoreless innings of relief. Jimmy Yacabonis walked three, but recorded the final five outs to nab his fifth save.