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Myrtle Beach Pelicans: Game Notes, June 24 at Lynchburg

June 24, 2018 - Carolina League (CarL1)
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The Myrtle Beach Pelicans play at the Lynchburg Hillcats in Sunday's 3 p.m. doubleheader. RHP Erich Uelmen (0-0, 0.00 ERA) makes his High-A debut in the twin bill opener, and the Las Vegas native is opposed by RHP Justin Garza (3-4, 3.89 ERA). The finale pits RHP Casey Bloomquist (2-0, 1.80 ERA) against Lynchburg LHP Anderson Polanco (1-1, 4.33 ERA). Coverage begins at 2:45 p.m. on MyrtleBeachPelicans.com/Broadcast, the MiLB First Pitch app and TuneIn.

MYRTLE BEACH FALLS 7-2 IN SEVEN-INNING GAME

The Lynchburg Hillcats scored seven unanswered runs on Saturday to beat the Myrtle Beach Pelicans 7-2. The Birds jumped out to a 2-0 lead in their first at-bats courtesy of an Aramis Ademan RBI double and Wladimir Galindo RBI single. However, Lynchburg came right back in the bottom of the first to knot the score at two. The Hillcats tallied two more runs in the second on Conner Capel's base hit to go up 4-2. The game was paused in the fourth inning for a two-hour and 40-minute rain delay. Once the clubs resumed, Lynchburg scored three runs in the fifth to take control 7-2. The clubs only played seven innings in what was supposed to be game one of a doubleheader. However, the finale was postponed until Sunday.

MY HEART'S A MONASTERIO

Myrtle Beach infielder Andruw Monasterio has reached base multiple times in 10 contests during his 14-game on-base streak. Over these last 14 contests, the Caracas, Venezuela native is 21-for-53 (.396) with a double, triple, home run, six RBIs and five walks. After slashing just .241/.313/.287 (75 wRC+) in a brief stint at the High-A level last year, Monasterio is hitting .282/.367/.359 (111 wRC+) this season. Part of his success is a better approach at the plate; after walking in 5.2 percent of his plate appearances in 2016 and 8.3 percent last season, Monasterio is posting a career-best 11.2 percent walk rate in 2018, the third-best mark on the team.

ERICH THE RED

Right-handed pitcher Erich Uelmen will make his High-A debut in the opener of Sunday's doubleheader. The Cubs' fourth-round pick last season out of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo earned a promotion from Low-A South Bend following an extraordinary hot streak. Uelmen did not allow a run in five of his last seven outings dating back to May 8 with South Bend, going 4-2 with a 1.09 ERA (41.1 IP, 32 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 7 BB, 43 K). That stretch helped push his FIP, an ERA estimator based on factors most within a pitcher's control like strikeouts, walks and home runs, to a stellar 2.47, the second-best in the Midwest League (min. 50 IP). No pitcher in the Midwest League posted a higher ground ball rate than Uelmen's 66.2 percent. The Las Vegas native's 15.4 swinging strike rate also placed him third in that Low-A circuit.

START SPREADING THE NEWS

Over the last 27 games, Myrtle Beach has seen their starting pitching catch fire, with the club's rotation ceding just 44 runs, 40 earned, on 137 hits in 148.2 innings for a 2.42 ERA. Pelicans starters have whiffed 129 while walking only 33 during this stretch. Not coincidentally, Myrtle Beach has allowed more than four runs just twice in these 27 games. Birds starters are averaging 5.2 innings per start over this stretch, compared to 4.2 prior to this run.

BROKEN BATS

Myrtle Beach has followed up nine wins in 10 games with nine losses in 10 contests despite consistently excellent pitching. The club has really struggled offensively during this run, scoring a grand total of 19 runs over this nine-game stretch (1.9 per game). In fact, outside of plating seven runs on June 11, the Birds have gone nine contests in a row without tallying more than two runs. As a team over the last 10 games, Myrtle Beach is posting a batting line of .181/.259/.247 (287 AB, 52 H, 9 2B, 2 3B, 2 HR, 28 BB, 2 HBP).

WHEN THE REGRESSION MONSTER BITES

Following a 4-3 win over Salem on June 10, Myrtle Beach boasted a 10-3 record in one-run games, the best such mark in the Carolina League. However, records in one-run games are mostly correlated with luck and timing, and it is extremely rare for squads to sustain success in these narrow contests over the course of a season. Thus, in nearly every single level across the history of baseball, almost every club posts records in one-run contests at or near .500. Sure enough, the regression monster has come back to bite the Birds. In the 10 games since that June 10 win, the Pelicans have played four contests decided by one run and lost all of them, dropping their record to 10-7 in one-run affairs.

PELICAN POINTS

Myrtle Beach has walked just 201 batters this season, by far the fewest in the Carolina League. In fact, the Birds have dished out no more than three walks in 13 straight games... Following Sunday's doubleheader in Lynchburg, the Pelicans return to the Grand Strand for a nine-game homestand, the second-longest in recorded club history, which dates back through 2005 (10 games, June 13-23, 2005).

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