Myrtle Beach Pelicans (42-49, 8-13) at Down East Wood Ducks (44-48, 9-13) vs. THE WOOD DUCKS 2018 vs. Wood Ducks ..........................................................9-5 Friday, July 13, 2018 - 7:00 p.m. in Myrtle Beach ...........................................................6-1 Game No. 92 • Second Half Game No. 22 • Road Game No. 44 in Kinston .....................................................................3-4 Grainger Stadium • Kinston, N.C. All-Time vs. Down East......................................25-16 (.610) MyrtleBeachPelicans.com/Broadcast • MiLB First Pitch • TuneIn 2017 Regular Season vs. Down East ...........................16-11 in Myrtle Beach ...........................................................8-7 RHP Cory Abbott (1-4, 4.88 ERA) vs. LHP Joe Palumbo (0-0, 0.00 ERA) in Kinston .....................................................................8-4 LACY DRIVES BIRDS TO 6-3 WIN THE BIG REVIVAL PELICANS BY THE NUMBERS Rollie Lacy allowed just one run over 5.1 innings to spur After falling 3-1 in Monday’s series opener with Carolina, Record ...............................................................................42-49 the Pelicans to a 6-3 victory Wednesday over Carolina. The Myrtle Beach’s offense has mashed over the last two days Home Record ..................................................................26-22 right-hander recorded strikeouts on each of his first six outs against a Mudcats pitching staff that had posted a 2.70 ERA Road Record ....................................................................16-27 en route to seven whiffs in his High-A debut. The Birds broke over their previous 22 contests. The Pelicans have scored at Current Streak .....................................................................W2 open a scoreless tie with Andruw Monasterio’s RBI single least six runs in back-to-back games for the first time since and Luis Ayala’s RBI ground out to make it 2-0. The Muddies plating six runs in consecutive contests on May 27 and May Runs Scored ...................................336 (3.7 per game)/10th Runs Allowed ................................... 384 (4.2 per game)/6th plated a run in the top of the sixth, but Myrtle Beach 29. Over these last two duels, Myrtle Beach has registered Run Differential............................................................. -48/9th answered promptly in the bottom of the frame on D.J. 24 knocks, with eight Birds recording multi-hit contests and Pythagorean Record .......................................................40-51 Wilson’s RBI double. Monasterio drew a bases-loaded walk six compiling multi-RBI games. Southern Division Standing/GB..................................5th/6.5 in the seventh and Roberto Caro followed with a two-run Current Standings Streak ...................................5th, 18 days single to make it 6-1. Carolina scored twice in the eighth, HOW THE TURNTABLES... HAVE TURNED Long Standings Streak ........................5th, 31 days (5/3-6/2) but could not get any closer as Jose Paulino earned his first Rollie Lacy tossed 5.1 innings of one-run ball in Series Record ............................................................... 11-13-2 career save with 1.2 scoreless innings out of the bullpen. Wednesday’s 6-3 victory over Carolina, continuing a sudden Series Streak .........................................................................W1 trend of strong starting pitching for Myrtle Beach. Over the Pelicans’ Sweeps ....................4 (4-game, 6/30-7/3 vs. POT) (POSITIVE) REGRESSION IS COMING last 13 games, Pelicans starters have worked 64.2 innings, Sweeps of the Pelicans ......... 4 (5-game, 6/25-6/29 vs. BC) Cory Abbottmakes the start in Friday’s series opener at yielding only 17 runs, all earned, on 48 hits (6.5 H/9) for a Down East. In five outings so far with Myrtle Beach, the 2.37 ERA. The Birds’ starting staff has compiled 57 strikeouts Batting Average/Rank ................................................ .237/9th On-Base Percentage ................................................. .314/9th former LMU product is just 1-4 with a 4.88 ERA over 24.0 against 25 walks over this span. In the seven games prior to Slugging Percentage ................................................. .331/10th innings, meaning he is going less than five innings per start. this run, Myrtle Beach starters had posted an ugly 7.62 ERA OPS ............................................................................ .645/10th However, there are some underlying numbers that say thanks to 27 runs, 24 earned, on 39 hits (12.4 H/9) in 28.1 BABIP .................................................................................. .296 Abbott has been extremely unlucky with the Birds. Despite innings (30 K, 13 BB). Strikeouts ........................................................693/4th-Fewest registering more ground balls than he did with Low-A South K% (MLB avg: ~22.0%)....................................................21.3% Bend (38.1 percent to 45.5 percent), Abbott’s 4.88 ERA in Walks ............................................................................. 307/4th CONNECT FOUR BB% (MLB avg: ~8.5%) ......................................................9.4% High-A has skyrocketed from the 2.47 mark he posted in the Thanks to a staff that ranks at or near the top of the Carolina Hits ..............................................................................678/T-9th Midwest League. Abbott’s BABIP allowed with the Pelicans League in nearly every single pitching category, the Pelicans Doubles .......................................................................125/10th is .391, far above the .300 baseball-wide average. As that do not necessarily need to score a plethora of runs to win Triples ........................................................................... 16/T-7th mark regresses back down towards .300, Abbott’s ERA games. Sure enough, when Myrtle Beach plates at least four Home Runs ................................................................... 38/10th should also drop towards the 2.47 ERA he had with South tallies in a game, the Birds have a 33-9 (.786) record. This Stolen Bases.....................................................................55/7th Bend, as well as his current 3.40 FIP with Myrtle Beach. success has been exemplified of late; In the 66 games since Defensive Efficiency (MLB avg: ~.705) ......................... .698 May 11, the Pelicans have pitched well, posting a collective Errors .......................................................................... 102/Most BIRDS ON THE POND 3.38 ERA (482.1 IP, 406 H, 7.6 H/9, 213 R, 181 ER). Myrtle The Pelicans were just 5-for-31 (.161) with runners in Beach has scored at least four runs in 25 of those contests, FIP ..........................................................................................3.22 scoring position to strand a combined 26 runners on Sunday and the Birds are 23-2 (.920) in those games. ERA ............................................................................... 3.70/4th and Monday. However, the Birds are 11-for-28 (.393) with BABIP .................................................................................. .302 Strikeouts ...................................................................... 731/4th men on second and/or third over the last two games, PELICAN POINTS K% (MLB avg: ~22.0%)....................................................22.4% padding their numbers in their best hitting situation on Former Myrtle Beach right-hander James Norwood made Walks .............................................................. 261/2nd-Fewest the season. Myrtle Beach is batting .252/.331/.348 (.679 his major league debut on Wednesday with the Chicago BB% (MLB avg: ~8.5%) ......................................................8.0% OPS) with runners in scoring position this year, which, Cubs at San Francisco’s AT&T Park. Norwood took the loss Hits Allowed ...................................................704/4th-Fewest while not overly impressive, is far better than their line of in 1.2 innings, striking out two. The New York City native Home Runs ...............................................................44/Fewest WHIP ............................................................................1.25/2nd .231/.307/.325 (.632 OPS) in all other situations. The good pitched in 35 games with the Birds across the 2016-17 news, or potentially bad news, for the Pelicans is that nearly campaigns, going 4-0 with a 2.23 ERA (48.1 IP, 44 H, 18 BB, every team at every level across baseball posts similar 49)... The Chicago Cubs signed former SIU Saluki Max Schell SECOND HALF STANDINGS batting lines regardless of situation. to a tryout to be the Pelicans’ bullpen catcher. SOUTHERN Buies Creek 15-7 -- Winston-Salem 14-7 0.5 THE WEEK AHEAD Carolina 12-8 2.0 Down East 9-13 6.0 DATE TIME OPPONENT PELICANS STARTER OPP. STARTER Myrtle Beach 8-13 6.5 Sat. July 14 6:00 ET at Down East LHP Bryan Hudson (5-7, 5.27) RHP Jason Bahr (0-0, 0.00) Sun. July 15 4:00 ET at Down East RHP Tyson Miller (7-6, 3.62) LHP Yohander Mendez (1-1, 3.24) NORTHERN Mon. July 16 7:00 ET at Down East RHP Alex Lange (5-6, 3.52) RHP Steven Bruce (3-5, 3.86) Wilmington 11-8 -- Tue. July 17 OFF DAY Lynchburg 12-9 -- Wed. July 18 7:05 ET Potomac RHP Erich Uelmen (3-1, 3.31) TBA Salem 12-9 -- Thu. July 19 7:05 ET Potomac RHP Rollie Lacy (1-0, 1.69) TBA Potomac 7-14 5.0 Fri. July 20 7:05 ET Potomac TBA TBA Frederick 5-17 7.5 BIRD DROPPINGS Aramis Ademan: 15-for-57