Brewers, White Sox affiliates combine for lucky 13 homers in Triple-A game

The balls were rising out of the park Sunday.

The Triple-A Brewers and White Sox affiliates combined for 13 home runs in a 14-11 win for Nashville at Truist Field. The Sounds and the Charlotte Knights tallied the most long balls in a single game at any level this season, finishing two short of matching the most in Minor League Baseball since at least 2005.

To put it into perspective, the long ball output tied the Major League record, which was accomplished by the D-backs and Phillies on June 10, 2019.

Among the top ranked players in the game, the Knights featured back-to-back action from Top 100 prospects Kyle Teel and Colson Montgomery. In the fourth inning, Teel (MLB No. 29) launched a 427-foot rocket, the second furthest-hit ball of the contest, to center field at 111.8 mph. Then Montgomery (MLB No. 36) followed up two pitches later with a 400-footer to center.

Infielder Tristan Gray kept the train going with another long ball right after, but the three consecutive homers -- not even at the game's halfway point -- came after seven prior hits to leave the yard.

The Sounds' Anthony Seigler, Jorge Alfaro and Andruw Monasterio all connected on taters in the first. The Knights' Brandon Drury took off in the bottom half of the frame before Ernesto Martinez Jr., Daz Cameron and Alfaro (again) all clubbed homers across the next two innings for Nashville.

The barrage slowed down a bit across the final five frames with Greg Jones homering for the Knights in the fifth, Monasterio going yard again in the sixth and Dominic Fletcher adding one for good measure in the ninth for Charlotte.

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The two clubs totaled 3,678 feet across their first 12 combined homers, as Statcast didn't mark a distance for Fletcher's long ball. Yet Nashville did not break the single-game club mark for the season, finishing one shy of the Triple-A Iowa Cubs' eight on April 16.