Myrtle Beach Pelicans (13-13) vs. Columbia Fireflies (17-9) vs. THE FIREFLIES 2021 vs. Fireflies ......................................................................0-2 in Myrtle Beach .......................................................................0-2 Thursday, June 3, 2021 - 7:05 p.m. in Columbia ....................................................................0-0 Game No. 27 • Home Game No. 9 2019 vs. Columbia ................................................................ N/A Ticketreturn.com Field at Pelicans Ballpark • Myrtle Beach, S.C. LHP DJ Herz (0-0, 0.75 ERA) vs. RHP Delvin Capellan (1-1. 3.38 ERA) All-Time vs. Columbia.............................................. 0-2 (.000) LAST TIME OUT in the first month. Of the 27 players that made the PELICANS BY THE NUMBERS The Pelicans fell to the Fireflies for the second-straight opening night roster, just 16 are still on the active roster. time on Wednesday night by the final of 6-2. The Pelicans In last night’s starting lineup, OF Jordan Nwogu, OF Record ....................................................................13-13 committed a season-high of five errors, which led to five Yohendrick Pinango, and starting pitcherJoe Nahas were Home Record ............................................................4-4 unearned runs charged to RHP Manuel Espinoza. C Pablo the only players that were on the opening night roster at Road Record ..............................................................9-9 Aliendo racked up his sixth multi-hit performance in his Charleston on May 4th. Current Streak ............................................................ L2 last seven games with a 2-4 day. Espinoza took the loss while RHP Gabriel Jaramillo, RHP Jeremiah Estrada, and TOP CUBBIE RHP Jarod Wright all made their first appearances of the Highlighting the Pelicans’ roster in 2021 is the Cubs’ Runs Scored .......................................113 (4.3/G)/9th season in relief with no runs allowed through five innings. first-round draft pickEd Howard. Howard was the first Runs Allowed ....................................124 (4.8/G)/5th shortstop taken in the five-round 2020 MLB draft as the Run Differential ...............................................-11/9th HERE COME THE HITS Cubs selected him 16th overall. The Chicago native was Low-A East, South Division Standing/GB ...........3rd/4.0 After starting the season out with a team batting average ranked as the fourth-best prospect in the Cubs system by Current Standings Streak .......................3rd/8 days below .200, the Pelicans have now worked their way to Baseball America and fifth on MLB’s Cubs 2021 Prospect Long Standings Strk ...............4th (May 4-May 13) a .213 team average during the series with Salem. On Rankings despite his lack of professional experience. Tuesday night (5/25), the Birds tallied 13 hits with five Howard was put on the national stage when playing for different players posting multi-hit games. On Wednesday the Jackie Robinson West team that reached the 2014 Series Record.............................................................2-2 (5/26), Myrtle Beach continued the hot hitting with 12 Little League World Series. Known for his defense, How- Series Streak ............................................................. W1 base knocks and four players recording multi-hit games. ard will join the Pelicans this summer after graduating Pelicans’ Sweeps ..........................................................0 Friday night (5/28) saw 11 more Pelican hits with two from Mt. Carmel High School in 2020. Howard has tallied Sweeps of the Pelicans ..............................................0 players recording multi-hit games. In the final game on three multi-hit games in his last seven before being added Sunday, the Birds once again tallied double-digit hits to the IL on May 24. Batting Average/Rank ................................ .213/9th with 11. In the first two games against the Fireflies, the On-Base Percentage ................................. .289/11th Pelicans have been held to just 13 hits combined with BUDDY’S BACK only five coming Wednesday night (6/2). A familar face will be leading the Pelicans in 2021 as Slugging Percentage ................................ .303/10th Buddy Bailey returns to manage the club for his second OPS ................................................................. .591/11th YO YO stint in Myrtle Beach. Bailey previously led the Pelicans Strikeouts .........................................................288/4th Pelicans’ OF Yohendrick Pinango really turned things up from 2016-18, and will be coaching his 15th season in Walks ..................................................................79/12th with the bat in the road trip to Virginia. The 19-year-old the Cubs organization. During his first three years with Hits ......................................................................182/8th had his seven-game hit streak ended on Wednesday night the Pelicans, Bailey recorded 216 wins, three half-season Doubles ................................................................39/8th (5/27), where he went 11-28 (.393) in that span with a Southern Division Championship titles, one Southern Triples ................................................................. 4/T-7th home run, two doubles, seven runs, and five RBIs. His Division Championship title, and the Carolina League average climbed from .182 to a team second-best .264 Championship in 2016. In 2017, Bailey became just the Home Runs ......................................................10/11th during the stretch. 11th minor league manager to reach the 2,000-win Stolen Bases................................................. 15/T-11th plateau- he currently sits with 2,153. 2021 wil be his 33rd PABLO...SANCHEZ? season as a minor league manager. Errors .................................................................27/T-6th Pelicans’ DH/C Pablo Aliendo has been hitting like the Backyard Baseball legend Pablo Sanchez in this series PELICAN POINTS ERA .....................................................................3.79/6th against Salem. After starting the season just 4-32 (.125), The Pelicans are coming off their first of two two-week Strikeouts .........................................................270/7th Aliendo collected four multi-hit games in a row against road trips of the season, where they went 7-5 against the Red Sox and has raised his average to .294, courtesy Lynchburg (2-4) and Salem (5-1) last week. Walks ..................................................................105/8th of the second-straight three-hit game on Friday night Hits Allowed ....................................................194/5th (5/28). Aliendo went 11-19 with five RBIs, two doubles, The Pelicans played 18 of their first 24 games on the road. Home Runs .........................................................17/6th and five runs scored in this series. Aliendo started off the WHIP .............................................................. 1.33/T-5th series with Columbia with a 2-5 performance including a double and followed up with a 2-4 game on Wednesday night as his hot streak continues. LOW-A EAST STANDINGS NEW FACES SOUTH With the Pelicans moving to Low-A in the 2021 season, Columbia 17-9 -- the Birds have seen a ton of changes to their roster Charleston 15-11 2 Myrtle Beach 13-13 4 Augusta 12-14 5 THE WEEK AHEAD NORTH DATE TIME OPPONENT PELICANS STARTER OPP. STARTER Delmarva 19-6 -- 06/04 7:05 p.m. vs. Columbia Fireflies LHP Adam Laskey (0-2) LHP Luis De Avila (2-0) Lynchburg 15-10 4 Salem 13-13 6.5 06/05 6:05 p.m. vs. Columbia Fireflies RHP Sam Thoresen (0-2) RHP Ben Hernandez (0-1) Fredricksburg 5-21 14.5 06/06 6:05 p.m. vs. Columbia Fireflies RHP Richard Gallardo (0-1) LHP Rylan Kaufman (1-1) CENTRAL 06/07 OFF Carolina 16-9 -- 06/08 7:05 p.m. at Augusta GreenJackets RHP Manuel Espinoza (1-3) Down East 16-9 -- 06/09 7:05 p.m. at Augusta GreenJackets LHP DJ Herz (0-0) Fayetteville 9-16 7 06/10 7:05 p.m. at Augusta GreenJackets LHP Adam Laskey (0-2) Kannapolis 3-22 12 BIRD DROPPINGS - After batting .304 against Salem, the Birds have started 13-71 (.183) against the FIreflies through two games series at Salem) - 13 runs is marked a new season-high for the Pelicans on Friday night (5/21), while the 14 hits are also a season-high - The Birds rank 114/120 minor league teams in OBP (.289) - The Pelicans have had at least one player with three strikeouts in 19 of 26 games played. - The Pelicans rank 116th in all of the minors in SLG (.303) - The three-game winning streak was tied for the longest of the season for Myrtle Beach, they improved to over .500 for the first time this year with a 4-0 win over Salem on Sunday 5/30) - The Pelicans totaled double-digit hits in four of the six games played at Salem (overall they went 62-204 (.304) in the PAGE 2 • 2021 MYRTLE BEACH PELICANS GAME NOTES SITUATIONAL RECORDS & MISC., HIGHS AND LOWS PELICANS SITUATIONAL RECORD Against the 2021 Opponents Pitching Number of Days (in division) Team Total Home Road With a RHSP ....................................................................................8-9 In first place ........................................................................................0 vs. Low-A East, North................7-5......................0-0 ..........................7-5 With a LHSP ....................................................................................5-4 In second place .................................................................................0