Myrtle Beach Pelicans (17-18) Vs. Charleston Riverdogs (21-13) Vs
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Myrtle Beach Pelicans (17-18) vs. Charleston RiverDogs (21-13) vs. THE RIVERDOGS 2021 vs. RiverDogs .................................................................2-4 Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 7:05 p.m. in Myrtle Beach .......................................................................0-0 in Charleston .................................................................2-4 Game No. 36 • Home Game No. 12 2019 vs. Charleston .............................................................. N/A Ticketreturn.com Field at Pelicans Ballpark • Myrtle Beach, S.C. All-Time vs. Charleston ............................................ 2-4 (.333) RHP Manuel Espinoza (1-3, 3.51 ERA) vs. LHP Ben Brecht (0-2, 4.35 ERA) LAST TIME OUT with 4 2B, 6 RBIs and 6 runs scored. He leads the team in PELICANS BY THE NUMBERS In the series finale, the Pelicans dropped the final game average at .288 and had six multi-hit performances in 4-2 courtesy of an eighth inning rally by the Augusta seven games from 5/25 to 6/2. Aliendo hit his first home Record ....................................................................17-18 GreenJackets. With the game tied heading to the bottom run of the season on 6/13 at Augusta. Home Record ............................................................6-5 of the eighth, Augusta’s Cade Bunnell knocked in a pair of Road Record .........................................................11-13 runs with a bases-loaded single that eventually gave the TOP CUBBIE Current Streak ............................................................ L1 GreenJackets the win. The Pelicans only collected four Highlighting the Pelicans’ roster in 2021 is the Cubs’ hits, with C Pablo Aliendo hitting his first home run of the first-round draft pickEd Howard. Howard was the first season. RHP Joe Nahas was impressive out of the bullpen shortstop taken in the five-round 2020 MLB draft as the Runs Scored ...................................150 (4.3/G)/T-9th with a career-high nine strikeouts through four innings. Cubs selected him 16th overall. The Chicago native was Runs Allowed ....................................161 (4.6/G)/6th ranked as the fourth-best prospect in the Cubs system by Run Differential ...............................................-11/9th ALL THAT POWER Baseball America and fifth on MLB’s Cubs 2021 Prospect Low-A East, South Division Standing/GB ...........3rd/4.5 As a team, the Pelicans have struggled for home runs this Rankings despite his lack of professional experience. Current Standings Streak .......................3rd/4 days season, ranking 11/12 in the Low-A East with 16 homers. Howard was put on the national stage when playing for Long Standings Strk ...........3rd (May 27-June 10) Of the 16, five were hit in the series against Augusta the Jackie Robinson West team that reached the 2014 from 6/8-6/13. Myrtle Beach has hit a home run in four- Little League World Series. Known for his defense, How- straight games, the longest stretch this season with IF ard will join the Pelicans this summer after graduating Series Record.............................................................2-3 Luis Verdugo hitting his first two homers last week. from Mt. Carmel High School in 2020. Howard has tallied Series Streak ............................................................... L1 three multi-hit games in his last seven before being added Pelicans’ Sweeps ..........................................................0 YO YO to the IL on May 24. Sweeps of the Pelicans ..............................................0 After his seven-game hitting streak ended on May 27,OF Yohendrick Pinango went cold by hitting just 2-20 (.100) BUDDY’S BACK Batting Average/Rank ................................ .219/9th in his next five games. Since then, Pinango has hit safely A familar face will be leading the Pelicans in 2021 as On-Base Percentage ................................. .300/11th in seven of his last nine games, going 14-35 (.400) in the Buddy Bailey returns to manage the club for his second stretch with back to back three-hit games against Augus- stint in Myrtle Beach. Bailey previously led the Pelicans Slugging Percentage ............................ .319/T-10th ta (6/10,6/11) while also raising his average to a high of from 2016-18, and will be coaching his 15th season in OPS ................................................................. .619/11th .285. Pinango has a home run, 2 doubles, 4 RBIs, and has the Cubs organization. During his first three years with Strikeouts ..................................................... 370/T-4th scored 5 runs during another hot streak for the young the Pelicans, Bailey recorded 216 wins, three half-season Walks ................................................................116/11th outfielder. Pinango has logged two three-strikeout games Southern Division Championship titles, one Southern Hits ......................................................................247/9th in a row, his first two of the season. Division Championship title, and the Carolina League Doubles ................................................................49/8th Championship in 2016. In 2017, Bailey became just the Triples .....................................................................8/7th HERZDAY 11th minor league manager to reach the 2,000-win There has been no pitcher on the Pelicans’ staff that’s plateau- he currently sits with 2,157. 2021 wil be his 33rd Home Runs ......................................................16/11th been more dominant than LHP DJ Herz. The 20-year-old season as a minor league manager. Stolen Bases.....................................................19/12th started Thursday’s game (6/3) and tossed four hitless innings with just one walk and a new career-high nine PELICAN POINTS Errors .....................................................................35/9th strikeouts. Herz had a 0.56 ERA for the season and had In the last homestand against Columbia from 6/1-6/6, the only given up one earned run through 16 innings pitched Pelicans were only able to play two-nine inning games ERA .....................................................................3.91/6th in five starts (Prior to his start on 6/10). A big factor of his without a delay. Tuesday and Wednesday were played Strikeouts .........................................................366/6th success has been his strikeout rate which sits at 51% with normally, while Thursday’s game was suspended in the 29 K’s and just seven walks (Prior to his start on 6/10). sixth inning due to rain and completed on Friday. Friday’s Walks ..................................................................145/6th Herz was named the Cubs’ Minor League Pitcher of the regular game was postponed to Saturday, where Myrtle Hits Allowed ....................................................251/7th Month for May on Sunday (6/6). Beach played two seven-inning games. Sunday was post- Home Runs .........................................................20/8th poned to a later date. Tuesday’s series opener in Augusta WHIP ..................................................................1.35/6th PABLO...SANCHEZ? (6/8) was also postponed to a doubleheader on Thursday. Pelicans’ DH/C Pablo Aliendo has been hitting like the Backyard Baseball legend Pablo Sanchez in the last three The Pelicans played Charleston for the first time in the weeks. After starting the season just 4-32 (.125), Aliendo season-opening series from 5/4-5/9 with the RiverDogs LOW-A EAST STANDINGS saw a nine-game hitting streak end on Wednesday taking four of six games. It was the first time the two SOUTH night (6/9) which was tied for the longest by a Pelican teams had played a regular season series. As a team, the Charleston 21-13 -- this season. In the stretch, Aliendo went 17-33 (.515) Pelicans went 36-200 (.180) in the series. Columbia 19-14 1.5 Myrtle Beach 17-18 4.5 Augusta 17-19 5.5 THE WEEK AHEAD NORTH DATE TIME OPPONENT PELICANS STARTER OPP. STARTER Delmarva 23-11 -- 06/16 7:05 p.m. vs. Charleston RiverDogs LHP Adam Laskey (0-2) RHP Cole Wilcox (1-0) Lynchburg 18-16 5 Salem 19-17 5 06/17 7:05 p.m. vs. Charleston RiverDogs LHP DJ Herz (0-1) RHP Seth Johnson (2-2) Fredricksburg 11-25 13 06/18 7:05 p.m. vs. Charleston RiverDogs RHP Didier Vargas (2-1) RHP Taj Bradley (3-2) CENTRAL 06/19 6:05 p.m. vs. Charleston RiverDogs RHP Richard Gallardo (1-2) RHP Joel Peguero (0-4) Down East 22-13 -- 06/20 6:05 p.m. vs. Charleston RiverDogs RHP Manuel Espinoza (1-3) LHP Jose Lopez (2-2) Carolina 21-14 1 06/21 OFF Fayetteville 14-21 8 Kannapolis 7-28 15 BIRD DROPPINGS - The Pelicans have knocked 39 hits in games 2-5 against Augusta, going 39-131 (.298) as a team in this stretch with .500 for the first time this year with a 4-0 win over Salem on Sunday 5/30) three double-digit hit performances - The four-game losing streak that started on 6/5 is the longest for the Pelicans this season - The Pelicans have dipped three games under .500 twice (0-3, 7-10) but have not gone below that. - C/DH Pablo Aliendo tied the longest hitting streak by a Pelican this season at nine games (5/25-6/5) - 13 runs is marked a new season-high for the Pelicans against Lynchburg (5/21), while the 14 hits are also a season-high - The Pelicans committed a season-high five errors against Columbia on Wednesday 6/2 - The Pelicans have had at least one player with three strikeouts in 23 of 35 games played. - Myrtle Beach has committed 14 errors in the last 11 games and have had an error in five of the last six games - A three-game winning