Myrtle Beach Pelicans (1-5) vs. Winston-Salem Dash (3-3) vs. THE DASH 2018 vs. Dash .......................................................................0-2 Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 7:05 p.m. in Myrtle Beach ..........................................................0-0 Game No. 7 • Home Game No. 7 in Winston-Salem ......................................................0-2 TicketReturn.Com Field at Pelicans Ballpark • Myrtle Beach, S.C. All-Time vs. Winston-Salem .........................219-167 (.567) MiLB.tv • MyrtleBeachPelicans.com/Broadcast • MiLB First Pitch • TuneIn 2017 Regular Season vs. Winston-Salem ......................10-4 in Myrtle Beach ..........................................................5-2 RHP Keegan Thompson (0-1, 9.00 ERA) vs. RHP Dane Dunning (0-0, 1.80 ERA) in Winston-Salem ......................................................5-2 SPINGOLA HOMER NOT ENOUGH IN 6-4 LOSS LIKE MAGGIE MAY, WINS ARE PLAYING HARD TO GET PELICANS BY THE NUMBERS In his first action of the season, Daniel Spingola cracked a TicketReturn.Com Field at Pelicans Ballpark has been a Record ....................................................................................1-5 three-run home run, but it wasn’t enough Tuesday for the strong fortress for the Birds over the years. Myrtle Beach Home Record .......................................................................1-5 Myrtle Beach Pelicans in a 6-4 loss to the Winston-Salem last posted a losing home record in 2010, and from the Road Record .........................................................................0-0 Dash. Winston-Salem held a 3-1 advantage in the eighth, 2011-17 campaigns, the club compiled a 281-198 (.587) Current Streak .......................................................................L2 and added insurance runs on back-to-back two-out RBI mark at home. This year, however, the Pelicans have started doubles by Micker Adolfo and Yermin Mercedes to go up 1-5 on their opening home stand in the Grand Strand. The Runs Scored ....................................17 (2.8 per game)/T-8th Runs Allowed ................................... 34 (5.7 per game)/10th 5-1. Spingola launched his dinger in the bottom of the last time Myrtle Beach went 1-6 on a homestand was Run Differential...........................................................-17/10th eighth, but after Joel Booker answered with a homer of his August 17-23, 2013, when the Birds were swept in a four- Pythagorean Record ............................................................1-5 own in the ninth to make it 6-4, Myrtle Beach could get no game set by Lynchburg and lost two out of three to Salem. Southern Division Standing/GB..................................5th/3.0 closer. Connor Myers reached base three times and Andruw Current Standings Streak ..................................... 5th, 2 days Monasterio notched a pair of hits in the loss. WISE WORDS FROM PELIGRAPHS Long Standings Streak ..................5th, 2 days (4/9-present) While Myrtle Beach’s statistical numbers are not great, Series Record ....................................................................0-2-0 IGNORANCE IS BLISS the club has performed significantly worse with runners in Series Streak ........................................................................N/A Myrtle Beach’s 6-4 defeat to Winston-Salem Tuesday scoring position than any other situation. On offense with Pelicans’ Sweeps ...................................................................... 0 brought the Birds to 1-5, their worst start to a season in men on second and third, the Pelicans are hitting just .167 Sweeps of the Pelicans ........................................................... 0 recorded club history (since the 2005 season). The Pelicans with a .269 on-base percentage in just 48 plate Batting Average/Rank ................................................ .227/8th have recorded the worst run differential in the Carolina appearances. However, in any other situation, that On-Base Percentage ................................................. .302/8th League so far this year at -17. Through five games, though, average rises to .246 with a .318 OBP. On the pitching side, Slugging Percentage ................................................... .301/8th that mark was -15, which precisely matched the 2014 opponents are batting .364 against Myrtle Beach’s staff in OPS .............................................................................. .603/9th Pelicans, who also opened the lid on their season with a 1-4 66 at-bats with runners in scoring position. In any other BABIP .................................................................................. .280 record. That Myrtle Beach club rebounded quickly, though, situation, that mark is .261. The good news for the Pelicans Strikeouts ..........................................................44/2nd-Fewest Walks ..............................................................19/T-3rd-Fewest bringing their record to 7-4 in the second week of the 2014 is that when a squad posts numbers that go haywire either Hits ....................................................................................40/8th season. If the 2018 Birds can win Wednesday against the positively or negatively with runners in scoring position, it is Doubles ............................................................................2/10th Dash, Myrtle Beach would equal the 2006 Pelicans for the almost always a sign of luck, or lack thereof, shining through Triples ............................................................................. 1/T-4th worst start to a season in recorded club history at 2-5. in a much smaller sample size than a full season’s worth of Home Runs ....................................................................3/ T-3rd plate appearances. Stolen Bases.......................................................................6/4th IT’S NOT GOODBYE, IT’S SEE YOU LATER Defensive Efficiency (MLB avg: ~.705) ......................... .667 The Pelicans and Dash have formed quite a rivalry over the CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? Errors ............................................................................ 11/Most past few seasons. Since the start of the 2015 campaign, Now in his 30th season as a minor league skipper, Pelicans including the postseason, Myrtle Beach and Winston-Salem manager Buddy Bailey is one of just 11 piloters in Minor FIP ..........................................................................................2.62 have met in 71 contests, with the Birds owning a 42-29 League Baseball history to accumulate at least 2,000 career ERA ............................................................................. 4.68/10th (.592) record against their friends from the Camel City. victories. The Madison Heights, Va., native’s career record is BABIP .................................................................................. .333 Strikeouts ..................................................................... 41/T-9th However, that record does not completely sell how close 2,007-1,849 (.521), meaning he is just three triumphs away Walks .........................................................................12/Fewest the two clubs have played against each other. Incredibly, from breaking into the top 10 in MiLB history. Hits Allowed ................................................................ 57/Most 49 of those 71 games (69.0 percent) have been decided by Home Runs ..................................................... 1/T-2nd-Fewest three runs or less. The Pelicans have a significant edge in PELICAN POINTS WHIP ............................................................................ 1.38/7th those games, going 32-17 (.653) against the Dash in those Going into Wednesday’s game against the Dash, Pelicans Starters W-L ..........................................................................1-4 contests decided by slim margins. Since the start of 2016, relievers have struggled in their last two contests. The club’s Starters ERA........................................................................5.40 that advantage has been even bigger, with Myrtle Beach used five pitchers who have given up seven runs, all earned, Bullpen W-L ...........................................................................0-1 posting a 21-8 (.724) record in games decided by three runs mixing 12 hits and three walks in 8.1 frames for a 7.56 ERA... Bullpen ERA .........................................................................3.74 or less against Winston-Salem. That said, the Dash have Pitching Wednesday is right-hander Keegan Thompson, a FIRST HALF STANDINGS taken each of the first two meetings of 2018 by a combined young righty out of Auburn. Without the experience of a four runs. monk, he is making just his third career start. SOUTHERN Carolina 4-2 -- Buies Creek 3-3 1.0 UPCOMING PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS AND GAME TIMES Winston-Salem 3-3 1.0 Down East 2-4 2.0 DATE TIME OPPONENT PELICANS STARTER OPP. STARTER Myrtle Beach 1-5 3.0 Thu. April 12 7:00 ET at Down East LHP Jose Paulino (0-1, 12.27) RHP Edgar Arredondo (1-0, 1.80) Fri. April 13 7:00 ET at Down East LHP Bryan Hudson (0-1, 7.20) RHP Michael Matuella (0-0, 3.60) NORTHERN Sat. April 14 6:00 ET at Down East RHP Tyson Miller (1-0, 0.00) RHP Jonathan Hernandez (0-1, 2.25) Salem 5-1 -- Sun. April 15 2:00 ET at Down East RHP Alex Lange (0-0, 1.80) RHP Walker Weickel (0-1, 3.86) Frederick 4-2 1.0 Mon. April 16 7:00 ET at Buies Creek RHP Matt Swarmer