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Birds Win Blowout with Back-To-Back Jacks

July 18, 2011 - Carolina League (CarL1)
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MYRTLE BEACH, SC - Jared Bolden was rewarded for his remarkable hot streak with Carolina League Player of the Week honors on Monday and he kept it up against the Wilmington Blue Rocks. Bolden followed up Leury Garcia's two-run homer in the fifth with a long ball of his own to give the Birds their first back-to-back homers of the season and a 10-1 win on Monday at BB&T Coastal Field.

The game started as a pitcher's duel as Birds starter Robbie Ross and Wilmington's Justin Marks traded zeroes into the third. In the bottom of the third, Jared Hoying scored on an RBI fielder's choice by Bolden to put the Pelicans on the board and Bolden later came in on a Zach Zaneski double.

The two-bagger by Zaneski extended his hitting streak to 16 games, tying him with teammate Ryan Strausborger and Frederick's Miguel Abreu for the longest run in the Carolina League in 2011.

The Birds broke the game open in the fourth with five runs on six hits as they knocked Marks (5-7) out after three and one-third innings. The lefty allowed six runs, four earned, on seven hits as he was beaten by fellow southpaw and Kentuckian Robbie Ross.

Ross gave up his only run in the fifth, but the Myrtle Beach bats were not done as they got the tally back and then some, adding three runs in the bottom half of the fifth against reliever Brendan Lafferty. Andres James led off the frame with a double and two batters later, Garcia cracked his third homer of the season to make it a 9-1 game. Bolden followed with a towering blast over the right-center field fence to give Myrtle Beach their first consecutive home runs since August 14, 2010.

The reigning Carolina League Player of the Week notched his sixth straight multi-hit game, has hit .479 (24-51) over his last 13 games and raised his overall batting average to .293 to rank fourth in the circuit.

The beneficiary of the offensive barrage was Robbie Ross, not that he needed much of it. The lefty held the Blue Rocks to one run on only four hits in seven innings of work. Ross (9-3) is tied with Frederick's Bobby Bundy for second in the league in wins, one behind Bundy's teammate Nathan Moreau.

Kasey Kiker worked a scoreless eighth and ninth to finish off the Pelicans' fifth straight win. Over the last four games, the Myrtle Beach bullpen has run up a streak of 15 and one-third shutout frames with eight hurlers contributing.

The Pelicans can match their longest winning streak of the season on Tuesday night when lefty Miguel De Los Santos (2-1, 2.25) goes for the Pelicans against Wilmington right-hander Elisaul Pimentel (5-6, 3.72). First pitch at BB&T Coastal Field is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. Tickets for all Pelicans home games are available at the BB&T Coastal Field box office, MyrtleBeachPelicans.com, and by phone at 843-918-6000 or 877-918-TIXX.

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