The family and friends who came to see Spencer Adams pitch on Sunday were lucky. They never had to watch him leave.

"My mom, my dad and my brother came up," he said. "My girlfriend and her parents and my host family came up from Cary, North Carolina -- they were my host family when I played in the Tournament of Stars in high school. They said they had been wanting to watch me play. Today was just a perfect day for them to be here."

The No. 3 White Sox prospect pitched an eight-hitter for his first career shutout as Class A Advanced Winston-Salem blanked Wilmington, 4-0, at BB&T Ballpark.

Adams (6-3) waited while the Dash lost, 6-2, in the completion of Saturday's suspended game. Then the 20-year-old right-hander went to work to reverse the momentum.

"Once I got out there, it felt like it was just a normal day," he said. "I was working with the first-pitch strikes, just moving the ball on both sides of the plate, fastball in and out. They were trying to ambush it a little bit, so I just threw the ball down in the zone and let them put it in play, and my defense did a great job."

Adams works with a four-pitch mix but said he really only needed his fastball against the Blue Rocks.

"I only threw probably three changeups all day. I just didn't really need it today," Adams said. "I didn't go deep in counts trying to strike people out. They just put the ball in play."

Wilmington totaled nine baserunners but had more than one on at the same time just once. Adams induced double plays in the first and fourth on the way to racking up 14 ground-ball outs. He threw 91 pitches to complete the "Maddux" -- a nine-inning shutout with fewer than 100 pitches.

Although the 2014 second-round pick ranks sixth in the Carolina League with 53 strikeouts, Sunday's opponent dictated a more efficient approach.

"I was watching yesterday and I noticed Jordan Stephens was doing a lot of the same things," Adams said. "He was attacking with the fastball early and they were putting the ball in play. I saw they swung the bat aggressively yesterday, so the first couple innings, I went inside quite a bit and got ground-ball outs, double play balls. And that was what helped me most today."

Adams tossed the Dash's first complete-game shutout since Tony Bucciferro spun a one-hitter on July 21, 2014. The fact that his family and friends had a chance to see it only added to his satisfaction.

"They're always happy for me or proud of me after an outing, even if it isn't the best," he said. "I'm just glad to be able to give them that one after they made the trip up here. I don't think I'll be forgetting this one anytime soon."

Brett Austin singled, doubled and drove in a run for Winston-Salem.

Wilmington starter Corey Ray (1-2) allowed four runs on seven hits while striking out five over five frames.