Myrtle Beach Pelicans (3-12) vs. Down East Wood Ducks (8-7) vs. THE WOOD DUCKS 2018 vs. Wood Ducks ..........................................................2-3 Friday, April 20, 2018 - 7:05 p.m. in Myrtle Beach ...........................................................0-1 Game No. 16 • Home Game No. 9 in Kinston .....................................................................2-2 TicketReturn.Com Field at Pelicans Ballpark • Myrtle Beach, S.C. All-Time vs. Down East......................................18-14 (.563) MiLB.tv • MyrtleBeachPelicans.com/Broadcast • MiLB First Pitch • TuneIn 2017 Regular Season vs. Down East ...........................16-11 in Myrtle Beach ...........................................................8-7 LHP Bryan Hudson (1-1, 6.30 ERA) vs. RHP Michael Matuella (0-1, 7.27 ERA) in Kinston .....................................................................8-4 LATE COMEBACK FOILED IN LOSS TO DOWN EAST RAGE AGAINST THE MACHIN PELICANS BY THE NUMBERS Myrtle Beach tried to rally from a five-run deficit Thursday, Pelicans infielder Vimael Machin got off to slow start on the Record ................................................................................. 3-12 but the Pelicans came up just short in a 6-5 loss to Down season, posting just one hit in his first six games (1-for-23, Home Record .......................................................................1-7 East. The Wood Ducks plated two in the first and three in .043). However, the San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico native has Road Record .........................................................................2-5 the second to grab the lead. Daniel Spingola and Vimael reached base in each of his eight games since, including Current Streak .......................................................................L4 Machin homered in the second and third, respectively, to five contests with multiple trips on the basepaths. Over this get the Birds on the board. Andretty Cordero popped a solo eight-game stretch Machin is for 9-for-26 with four Runs Scored ....................................... 65 (4.3 per game)/5th Runs Allowed ................................... 99 (6.6 per game)/10th shot in the sixth to increase Down East’s advantage to 6-2. doubles, one home run, seven RBIs and 11 walks, slashing Run Differential...........................................................-34/10th The score remained that way until the eighth, when Myrtle .346/.541/.615 (1.165 OPS). In Myrtle Beach’s series last Pythagorean Record ......................................................... 5-10 Beach executed a two-out rally with runs on Tyler Alamo’s week at Down East, Machin twice tied a career-high with Southern Division Standing/GB..................................5th/7.0 double, Chris Pieters’ triple and Andruw Monasterio’s three walks and also matched career-bests in hits (four) and Current Standings Streak ...................................5th, 11 days single to make it 6-5. In the ninth, the Pelicans put the tying runs scored (three) against the Wood Ducks. Long Standings Streak ................5th, 11 days (4/9-present) and winning runs on, but could not cash them in. Series Record ....................................................................0-3-1 BROKEN BATS Series Streak ...........................................................................L1 WHEEL OF FORTUNE Buies Creek held Myrtle Beach to no more than four hits in Pelicans’ Sweeps ...................................................................... 0 Myrtle Beach lost 6-5 in Thursday’s series opener against each of the three games during their set, with the Astros Sweeps of the Pelicans ..............2 (3-game, 4/16-18 at BC) Down East. Thus, the Pelicans fell to a woeful 1-7 (.125) in recording two shutouts. Thus, just 15 games into the Batting Average/Rank ................................................ .230/8th games decided by three runs or fewer, easily the worst such season, the Pelicans, who do rank in the top half of the On-Base Percentage ................................................. .313/9th mark in the Carolina League. However, records that tend to league in runs scored, have been held to six hits or fewer in Slugging Percentage ................................................... .344/7th go haywire in either a positive or negative direction in these eight games. In addition, Myrtle Beach has gone hitless into OPS .............................................................................. .657/7th narrowly-decided contests can often be misleading, as most at least the sixth inning in three contests. The Birds have BABIP .................................................................................. .293 clubs tend to finish with a record near .500 in games also been shut out four times, the most in the league. In Strikeouts ........................................................138/T-3rd-Most Walks ............................................................................ 53/T-6th decided by three runs or less. Sure enough, the 2017 comparison, the Pelicans were blanked just six times over Hits ................................................................................. 112/6th Pelicans went 46-40 (.535) in such contests. Therefore, a their 140-game slate during the 2017 season. Doubles ............................................................................20/9th squad’s Pythagorean record, based on how many runs a Triples ............................................................................. 3/T-5th club has scored and allowed, is often a better indicator of APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS Home Runs ......................................................................10/5th team quality. And while Myrtle Beach’s Pythagorean record Myrtle Beach’s 3-12 start to the season is their worst start Stolen Bases.....................................................................16/4th is still only 5-10, it does indicate the club has been fairly to a campaign in recorded club history (since the 2005 Defensive Efficiency (MLB avg: ~.705) ......................... .644 unlucky to this point of the season. season). The Pelicans have suffered series losses in three Errors ....................................................................22/2nd-Most of their first four sets, and club has already endured two THAT’S OUR BUDDY series sweeps, the earliest in a season the Birds have been FIP ..........................................................................................3.75 The 2018 campaign is manager Buddy Bailey 30th season as broomed twice since at least 2005. Myrtle Beach also has ERA ............................................................................. 5.79/10th a minor league manager. A native of Madison Heights, Va., 11 losses so far in April, their most since dropping 14 April BABIP .................................................................................. .356 Strikeouts ...................................................................... 122/5th Bailey is the 11th manager in Minor League Baseball history contests in 2010. Walks ..............................................................54/T-4th-Fewest to accumulate at least 2,000 career victories. According Hits Allowed ..............................................................148/Most to Baseball Reference, Bailey’s 2,009-1,856 (.521) record PELICAN POINTS Home Runs .......................................................10/T-2nd-Most means he is just one win away from passing Andy Gilbert, Over eight games from April 9-18, the Myrtle Beach bullpen WHIP ............................................................................ 1.60/9th who skippered in the New York and San Francisco Giants posted a woeful 8.60 ERA in 37.2 innings (44 H, 39 R, 36 ER, Starters W-L ..........................................................................2-9 and Atlanta Braves organizations from 1950-82, for sole 28 BB, 6.7 BB/9). However, Pelicans relievers have now fired Starters ERA........................................................................5.53 possession of 10th place in MiLB history. Stan Wasiak, who five shutout frames over the last two games... The Birds will Bullpen W-L ...........................................................................1-3 managed in the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers’ have to win their final three games of this series to earn Bullpen ERA .........................................................................6.11 organization, along with the Detroit Tigers and Chicago their first set win of 2018. The longest drought in recorded FIRST HALF STANDINGS White Sox’s systems, respectively, is the minors’ all-time club history to start a season without a series win came in wins leader at 2,530-2,314 (.522). 2009, when the Pelicans didn’t take a set until May 26-28. SOUTHERN Buies Creek 10-5 -- Winston-Salem 9-6 1.0 UPCOMING PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS AND GAME TIMES Carolina 8-7 2.0 Down East 8-7 2.0 DATE TIME OPPONENT PELICANS STARTER OPP. STARTER Myrtle Beach 3-12 7.0 Sat. April 21 6:05 ET Down East RHP Alex Lange (0-0, 3.00) RHP Walker Weickel (0-2, 12.00) Sun. April 22 6:05 ET Down East RHP Matt Swarmer (0-2, 2.79) LHP Christian Torres (1-1, 2.25) NORTHERN Mon. April 23 OFF DAY Potomac 9-6 -- Tue. April 24 7:00 ET at Carolina RHP Keegan Thompson (0-2, 5.65) TBA Salem 8-7 1.0 Wed. April 25 11:00 a.m. at Carolina LHP Jose Paulino (0-2, 9.69) TBA Lynchburg 7-7 1.5 Thu. April 26 7:00 ET at Carolina RHP Tyson Miller (1-2, 4.50) TBA Wilmington