It has not been a good two weeks for Charlotte FC. Wednesday at Orlando: 4-1. Saturday at Nashville: 4-2. From out here, those scores arrive on the phone the same way most away-game results do, and they have not been improving.

The full recap of Saturday's 2-4 loss at Nashville is over at The Charlotte Mercury, and Jack Beckett walks the box-score side cleanly. The short version for those of us out in the Marvin-Waxhaw corridor who measure a match by whether it justifies a half-hour drive uptown: Charlotte FC is fifth in the Eastern Conference, the road form has been bad, and the home schedule is the part of the calendar where the season can recover.

May 9 is the next home match. FC Cincinnati at 7:30 p.m. on a Saturday at Bank of America Stadium. From Firethorne, plan on a half-hour or so north up Providence Road and onto I-485, longer if you hit Saturday SouthPark traffic on the way in. May 13 is the next one — New York City FC at 7 p.m. on a Wednesday — which is a harder midweek ask from out here. May 16 is Toronto FC, Saturday. May 23 is New England, Saturday again.

The Saturday home games are the ones to circle. The road trip in May goes through New England on the second. After that, the schedule comes home.