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Another Big First Paces Lynchburg Past Pelicans

July 3, 2011 - Carolina League (CarL1)
Myrtle Beach Pelicans News Release


LYNCHBURG, VA - For the second straight evening, the Lynchburg Hillcats got almost all the offense they needed in the bottom of the first inning as Joe Leonard's three-run blast got the home team off and running in a 5-3 win over Wilfredo Boscan and the Pelicans Sunday night at Lynchburg City Stadium.

In a Jekyll-and-Hyde run in his Carolina League stay, right-handed Myrtle Beach starter Boscan was looking to reclaim his outstanding form of a five-start, two-win span from May 27 to June 16 and forget about defeats in his last two times on the hill on June 23 and 28. The first inning was more of the latter as the Hillcats put on Andrelton Simmons with a one-out infield single and Joey Terdoslavich with a two-out walk immediately before Leonard's jack cleared the left-field wall to put Lynchburg up 3-0.

Like it was Saturday, Myrtle Beach's offense was stuck in a funk Sunda, though the Pelicans did get on the board earlier on this night with a run in the third on a Ryan Strausborger sacrifice fly scoring Leury Garcia to make it 3-1. Lynchburg starting pitcher David Hale and reliever Dimasther Delgado, Sunday's originally scheduled starter, made the evening tough on Myrtle Beach's bats throughout. Strausborger's flyout started a string of thirteen straight batters, of which 12 were outs, in which the Pelicans didn't have a man reach via a hit.

Delgado (5-5) inherited the 3-1 lead from Hale who pitched through four in his first time not coming out of the bullpen this season. The lefty from Panama allowed a Pelicans tally in the seventh to make the lead 4-2 Lynchburg at the time. Over three and two-thirds innings of work, Delgado (5-5) surrendered just that lone run on two hits with two walks and two strikeouts.

Boscan (2-5) settled in after his shaky first just like Miguel De Los Santos one night prior. The Pelicans' righty worked seven innings and turned his start into a decent one, striking out four against one walk and allowing four runs on seven hits.

After the Pelicans got runs in the third and seventh, Lynchburg rebounded with one in the bottom of the next inning to reinstate their three-run lead. Myrtle Beach cut the deficit to two runs in the ninth but couldn't get any closer than 5-3. The Pelicans have now matched their longest losing streak of the season at four games and have dropped their last four games by a combined total of six runs.

Middle infielders Leury Garcia and Santiago Chirino were the only Pelicans players with multiple hits on Sunday. They each had two of Myrtle Beach's five total knocks. The Pelicans stranded ten men on the basepaths and went 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position compared to Lynchburg's four men left on and 3-for-5 line with RISP.

For Monday night's Fourth of July festivities in Lynchburg, the Pelicans will look to get a victory and put themselves in line for a series split Tuesday. Myrtle Beach sends right-hander Justin Grimm (2-1, 3.06) against former Pelican righty Zeke Spruill (5-7, 3.39) with an Independence Day first pitch scheduled for 7:05 p.m. Following this ten-game road trip, the Pelicans return home for the first of four with the Salem Red Sox at BB&T Coastal Field from July 13-16. Tickets for all Pelicans home games can be purchased by visiting the BB&T Coastal Field box office, the Tickets page at MyrtleBeachPelicans.com, or by calling (843)918-6000 or (877)918-TIXX.

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