Highlights: Bobby Kielty and Jonathan Van Every hit three-run homers to help the PawSox break a three-game losing streak. Van Every's 10th home run of the season, a three-run shot to left with one out in the second, gave the PawSox a 3-0 lead. Van Every scored another run in the fourth after Joe Thurston singled and Knights pitcher Lance Broadway uncorked a pair of wild pitches. Starting pitcher David Pauley pitched a one-hitter through four innings and allowed three runs over six frames. The Knights rallied to within 4-3, scoring two runs in the fifth and one in the sixth, but Bobby Kielty cracked a three-run homer off Charlotte relief pitcher Rob Bell in the seventh for a 7-3 lead. Jed Lowrie drove in a run with a two-out double to left center in the eighth.

Key to the game: Big bats with men on base, and big pitches when the Knights had men on. The two home runs by the PawSox were their most timely hits of the game. Van Every, who went 3-for-4, gave Pauley an early lead to work with when he homered in the second. Kielty's three-run blast gave the PawSox some breathing room after Charlotte cut the lead to one. Pauley worked out of a jam in the sixth with the go-ahead runs on base by getting a big double-play ground ball.

They said it: PawSox manager Ron Johnson: "The ball hasn't been bouncing our way the last two nights, so we were looking for someone to step up and do what David Pauley did tonight. He had a great outing and stayed poised even when he got in trouble. We needed both of those home runs. Kielty's solidified us. Baseball is a momentum game and they were catching up. After that, you had the feeling that if we just went out and threw strikes we would win the game."

Notes: Kielty broke a 1-for-18 slump with a first-inning single..The PawSox are 32-2 when they lead after six innings ... The PawSox have won 10 of their last 16 games and 13 of the last 21.