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Pelicans Game Notes: 7:05 p.m. vs. Salem Red Sox - August 2, 2014

August 2, 2014 - Carolina League (CarL1)
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LAST TIME OUT: The Pelicans lost the series opener to the Salem Red Sox 4-3 on Friday night at TicketReturn.com Field at Pelicans Ballpark...

Jantzen Witte singled four times to set a career-high for hits in a game.

With the win, Salem tied the season series at seven apiece....The game was scoreless over the first four innings. Pelicans starter SAM WOLFF made his second start since coming off of the disabled list on July 26.

Wolff pitched three scoreless innings, striking out four while scattering three hits and a hit batter. JOSE MONEGRO came in to the game in the fourth inning to relieve Wolff...After Monegro worked around a leadoff double in the fourth, the Red Sox took a 2-0 lead in the top of the fifth inning. On four singles, including one from Witte, Salem plated a pair of runs...Salem took a 4-0 lead in the top of the sixth on a two-run home run by Johnson....Salem spot starter Jacob Dahlstrand did not allow a hit in the first three innings and was unscored upon over the first five frames...

The Pelicans got on the board in the bottom half of the inning. With one out, still working against Dahlstrand, CHRIS GARIA doubled to right field. Three batters later, ROYCE BOLINGER drove home Garia with an RBI single to cut Salem's lead to 4-1. Salem turned to Kyle Martin to get out of the inning...The Birds cut their deficit to 4-3 in the bottom of the eighth. Garia singled to lead off the inning and later stole his 35th base of the season, tying J.C. Holt for the third-most steals by a Pelican in a single season in team history. JORGE ALFARO drove in his league- leading 72nd RBI with a single to center field, scoring Garia. Two batters later, Bolinger hit an RBI triple to deep right field to score Alfaro and cut the lead to one...Martin (8) retired six of the next seven batters to finish off the save, pitching the final 3 1/3 innings for Salem...The Red Sox starter Dahlstrand (1-0) pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings in his longest appearance this season to earn the win. Monegro (2-2) surrendered all four runs and took the loss.

STREAK SNAPPING: Yesterday's defeat snapped a three-game winning streak for the Pelicans. The club has posted seven streaks of three wins or more this season, six of which came in the first half.

Amazingly, the team has lost three or more consecutively only once, when Salem swept the Pelicans in the first four games of the season. BOLING FOR HITS: Few in the league got off to a hotter start to the year than Pelicans outfielder ROYCE BOLINGER. The former Gonzaga Bulldog spent the majority of his time in the first half in the top 5 in the league in hitting with a batting average that was above .300 from April 17 until after he went down with a knee injury in late May. Coming back from the injury in early July, Bolinger seems to have really found his groove again over the last four games. He has multiple hits in each of the last four contests, during which he is 10-for-21 (.476) with two doubles, a triple, a home run, and three runs driven in. For the season, Bolinger is batting .297 with 18 doubles, two triples, and a career-high six homers.

GETTIN' WITTE WIT IT: Spending most of the season in Low-A, 1B/3B Janzten Witte had not faced the Pelicans until last weekend. He is coming off a career-high four-hit game last night and is torching the Pelicans in his four starts against the club. He is 7-for-14 against the Birds with a homer and seven RBI. The Red Sox only hit .242 as a club against Myrtle Beach this season. Newcomer Carlos Asuaje has been no slouch either, batting .389 (7-for-18) against Myrtle Beach with a double, a triple, and three runs knocked in.

LOSING ON THE SOUTHERN FRONT: Part of the Pelicans' record setting first half was due to the club's dominance against its own division.

Myrtle Beach went 17-7 against the Southern Division in the first half, the best mark in the league against its division rivals. The Pelicans are just 9-11 against Southern Division foes in the second half and have lost five of the last seven games played against those same teams.

FROM THE BEACH TO THE BIGS: 2012 and 2013 Pelicans reliever PHIL KLEIN was promoted to big leagues yesterday by the Texas Rangers. He is the 129th Pelican to play in the big leagues and the 118th to make his debut after his time in Myrtle Beach (six were MLB rehabbers, four previously played in the majors and made it back, and another, Ryan Drese, was a former big leaguer that did not make it back).

Klein is the ninth former Pelican to make his MLB debut this season, joining ROUGNED ODOR, LUIS SARDINAS, NICK MARTINEZ, NEIL RAMIREZ, BEN ROWEN, ROMAN MENDEZ, KYLE HENDRICKS, and MATT WEST. Klein spent parts of two seasons with the Birds, posted a 1.50 ERA in 14 outings. He has had a breakout season this year to say the least. The former Youngstown State Penguin sports a 0.52 minor league ERA across Double-A and Triple-A and has not allowed a single extra-base hit in 51 2/3 innings. In his major league debut last night, however, Klein allowed a leadoff home run to Cleveland's Lonnie Chisenhall. He also allowed an infield single and committed a balk, allowing one run in his only inning of work.

A PERFECT FIRST IMPRESSION: Tossing another three scoreless innings on Wednesday afternoon in extra-innings, reliever JOSH MCELWEE joins trails only JOSE MONEGRO (13.0 IP) for the most innings thrown to begin his 2014 Pelicans season without allowing a run.

McElwee has allowed just five hits and four walks in his eleven shutout frames and has struck out 15 batters. He fanned 14.25 batters per nine innings while in the South Atlantic League with the Hickory Crawdads before his July 18 promotion. He is fanning 12.27/9 IP in his time in the Carolina League thus far.

RUNNING WILD: With CHRIS GARIA's 35th stolen base of the season on Friday, the outfielder is now second in the league and tied for third on the single season record list in team history in stolen bases. He is tied with J.C. HOLT (35, 2006) and trails only QUENTIN DAVIS (37, 2007) and ADAM STERN (40, 2002). The 35 steals is also career-high for the native of Willemstad, Curaçao. The Pelicans lead the league in stolen bases after trailing Lynchburg for most of the year.

TREADING WATER: On Monday, for the fifth time in the half, the Pelicans faced falling below a .500 record, and once again, the club avoided that fate. The Pelicans have not been below .500 in the second half and have not been under the even mark for the season since their first win in a four-game sweep at Salem on April 11 to improve to 4-4.

STRUTTING THEIR FEATHERS: The Pelicans roster currently features four players highlighted in Baseball America's list of the Rangers' Top 30 prospects, including two of the top 5, and two in the overall top 100 in MiLB. Catcher JORGE ALFARO (ranked No. 2 in the Rangers Top 30, No. 54 in the overall Top 100) and NICK WILLIAMS (3, 97) rank in the top 100. The other players in the Texas Top 30 are OF LEWIS BRINSON (15) and RHP JOSE LECLERC (16). Unranked in the top 30, CHRIS GARIA is the "Fastest Baserunner" and PRESTON BECK has the "Best Outfield Arm." CHRISTOPHER BOSTICK, traded from Oakland in December, was ranked No. 18 in the Athletics' top 30 by BA. Third baseman JOEY GALLO (4, 60) and RHPs ALEX "CHI CHI" GONZALEZ (5), KEONE KELA (18), and LHP ALEXANDER CLAUDIO (27) were all on the Pelicans' Opening Day Roster and are now with the Double-A Frisco RoughRiders.

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