Columbia Fireflies Game Notes 9.7 at Myrtle Beach
Published on September 7, 2025 under Carolina League (CarL)
Columbia Fireflies News Release
The Fireflies wrap up their regular season with a 1:35 pm contest against the Myrtle Beach Pelicans today at Pelicans Ballpark. RHP Hiro Wyatt (2-7, 4.78 ERA) takes the hill for Columbia and The Pelicans counter with RHP Ronny Lopez (0-2, 6.59 ERA).
Columbia will play their first home playoff game at Segra Park Thursday, September 11 at 7:05 pm. The night is presented by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Federal Employee Program, who will give away neon rally towels to the first 1,000 in attendance. Buy your tickets now at FirefliesTickets.com.
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EIGHT-RUN SIXTH SETS DOWN FIREFLIES: The Fireflies bullpen allowed an eight-run sixth and 10 total runs Saturday night as the Fireflies fell 10-5 to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans at Pelicans Ballpark. Yeri Perez (L, 4-4) surrendered six of those runs off four walks and a pair of hits in the sixth before passing the ball to Henson Leal. Fivestraight reached with a pair of outs for The Pelicans and Alexey Lumpuy and Ty Southisene collected five RBI off a pair of triples to reverse the script. Myrtle Beach entered the inning trailing 5-0 and they left it leading 8-5. The next frame, The Pelicans scored another pair off Leal. Matt Halbach and Cole Mathis led the inning off with back-to-back doubles and Derik Alcantara closed out the scoring with an RBI single.
ONE FOR THE RECORD BOOKS: Last Saturday night, Gonzalez broke the Fireflies career steals record in one season. Jean Ramirez had 68 steals from 2021-23 with the Fireflies. Gonzalez currently has the league lead with 75 steals. Columbia's center fielder also now owns the single-season runs scored record for the Fireflies. August 21 he scored his 71st run of the season to pass Erick Torres' 2024 mark.
NUMBERS BEHIND THE CLINCH: The Fireflies finished the first-half 36-30 to win the South Division Title for the first time in team history. It is the Fireflies first playoff berth in team history. The club will play their first home playoff game September 11 at Segra Park.
CAREER WEEK FOR RUSSELL: Last Tuesday, Stone Russell plated six RBI in the first four innings against the Hickory Crawdads. The productive evening powered Columbia to their first double-digit performance since May 3 against the Crawdads. It was Columbia's third six RBI performance of the season. Both Ramon Ramirez and Derlin Figueroa have also had a six RBI game this year. Ramirez and Figueroa both used the help of a grand slam to get their six RBI game in the first half. Russell followed it up with another pair of great outings Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday he drew three walks and drove in two runs and Thursday he plated four RBI for the Fireflies. Overall last week, Russell is 5-12 with six walks and 12 RBI in only three contests. Russell kept his hot streak rolling with three RBI in the opener with Myrtle Beach. He has 16 RBI in his last nine games.
THE BIG PICTURE: The Fireflies have one game remaining in the 2025 season. They'll close out the year with six on the road at Myrtle Beach. The final series of the year just so happens to serve as a playoff preview for the South Division. The Fireflies will play a best-of-three series against the Myrtle Beach Pelicans beginning with a 7:05 pm game one at Pelicans Ballpark Tuesday, September 9. After that, the Fireflies will play game two at 7:05 pm September 11 at Segra Park. If a game three is necessary, it will be played Friday, September 12 at Segra Park. The winner of the three-game series will play against the North Division Champion in a best-of-three series from September 14-17.
NOWAK, RUNNING OUT OF THE GATES: Saturday, Luke Nowak continued his torrid stretch to kick-off his professional career. The outfielder is currently riding an eight-game hitting streak and has started to find the gap more frequently. Nowak is hitting .483 with a pair of doubles and eight RBI during his hitting streak. Nowak has also tallied four-consecutive multiple hit games. Stone Russell has the longest streak in franchise history. He had five-straight from April 5-11. Since August 27, Nowak paces the league in average, on-base percentage and OPS.
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