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Pelicans Game Notes: Game One, MCCS - 5:05 p.m. ET at Wilmington Blue Rocks - September 13, 2015

September 13, 2015 - Carolina League (CarL1)
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PELICANS GAME NOTES: SEPTEMBER 13 at Wilmington Blue Rocks

GAME ONE OF THE MILLS CUP CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-five format tied 0-0)

First pitch from Frawley Stadium in Wilmington, Delaware is set for 5:05 p.m.

PELICANS: RHP Jen-Ho Tseng (7-7, 3.55 ERA) | BLUE ROCKS: RHP Zach Lovvorn (4-5, 3.93 ERA)

Today's game can be heard on WRNN AM 1450 ESPN Myrtle Beach, online and on mobile devices via TuneIn Radio, or on the MiLB First Pitch App. The broadcast is presented by Courtyard Myrtle Beach at Barefoot Landing. Pregame Show coverage begins at 4:45 p.m.

Today's pregame show guest is Pelicans manager Mark Johnson.

LAST TIME OUT: VICTOR CARATINI laced a three-run double in the first inning to put the Pelicans up early in a 4-3 win on Friday night in Game Three of the Southern Division Championship Series against the Winston-Salem Dash...Winston-Salem struck for a pair of runs in the third on a two-run homer by Adam Engel...Myrtle Beach got a run back in the seventh on an RBI single by CHESNY YOUNG...For the second straight game, Winston-Salem cut the deficit to one run in the ninth inning and had Trey Michalczewski at third base, representing the tying run, but Nick Basto grounded out to end it...JONATHAN MARTINEZ picked up the win with six innings of two-run ball, and DAVID GARNER notched the save with three innings of dominant relief work, allowing just one run, unearned, on one base hit with four strikeouts.

SOLER-POWERED: Cubs outfielder JORGE SOLER joined the roster on a Major League Rehab assignment on Friday. Soler, 23, is on the mend from an oblique strain suffered in August, and he was placed on the disabled list on August 24. He went 1-for-2 with a double, a run scored, and a walk in Game Three of the Southern Division Championship Series. Ranked as the No. 3 prospect in the Chicago Cubs farm system entering the year by Baseball America, Soler is batting .265 with 18 doubles, one triple, seven home runs, and 42 RBI in 90 games played in the big leagues. He has also struck out 111 times while drawing just 29 walks. This is his second stint on the DL this season. A native of Havana, Cuba, Soler signed with the Cubs as an amateur free agent in 2012. He defected from Cuba in 2011 and signed a nine-year, $30 million contract on June 30, 2012. According to reports out of Chicago, Soler is expected to play the entire series.

#PLAYOFFMANIA: The best-of-five Mills Cup Championship begins tonight. The Pelicans square off against Wilmington for the first time since 1999, when the clubs split the Hurricane Floyd-shortened Mills Cup Finals. This year, Myrtle Beach won the Southern Division title by beating the Winston-Salem Dash two games to one in the Southern Division Championship Series while the Blue Rocks swept the Lynchburg Hillcats in their best-of-three series. Games One and Two will be in Wilmington Sunday and Monday, while the Pelicans will host Games Three through Five Wednesday through Friday. The Pelicans have not won the Mills Cup since 2000 and have two titles. Wilmington has four CL championships but none since the 1999 co-championship; their last outright title was in 1998.

BATTLE TESTED: This year's Pelicans roster is chock-full of players with postseason experience. Sixteen current Pelicans have won minor league titles. Outfielder PIN-CHIEH CHEN won the Florida State League championship in 2013. Fifteen players from last year's Kane County Cougars Midwest League Championship roster are currently on the Pelicans roster (Baez, Brockmeyer, Dunston Jr., Lockhart, Martin, Rogers, Young, Zagunis, Blackburn, Heesch, Ihrig, Rakkar, Torrez, Tseng, and Underwood Jr.). BEN CARHART played in four games during last year's Florida State League playoffs, when the Cubs fell to the Fort Myers Miracle. In 2012, the Cubs affiliated Boise Hawks fell in the Northwest League finals with current Pelican MICHAEL HEESCH, and the same club lost in the finals in 2013 with Brockmeyer, Dunston Jr., Lockhart, Rogers, Blackburn, Rakkar, and Underwood Jr. The Hawks lost in the first round last year with a team including GLEYBER TORRES, JAMES FARRIS, BRAD MARKEY, and JEREMY NULL. Game Three starter JONATHAN MARTINEZ made a start for Great Lakes as a Dodgers farmhand in the 2013 postseason. Only DAVID BERG, JOSH CONWAY, DAVID GARNER, TYLER SKULINA, VICTOR CARATINI, and JASON VOSLER have not played in the postseason professionally.

THAT'S WHY THE RECORD BOOKS ARE IN PENCIL: The Pelicans completed the 2015 regular season setting a handful of team records and a few impressive individual feats. The club committed just 85 errors (previous record: 118, 2013); the pitching staff issued out only 339 walks (347, 2011); baserunners were caught just 45 times (51, 2012), and the club compiled the second-lowest team ERA, 3.01 (2.51 in 2000 is lowest, 3rd is now 3.20 in 2002). Individually, CHESNY YOUNG (.321) finished third in team history for batting average in a single season. MARK ZAGUNIS' 80 walks are tied for second-most in a single season with PRESTON BECK from last season. JONATHAN MARTINEZ (2.56 ERA) compiled the sixth-best ERA in club history, and JASVIR RAKKAR notched 16 saves, tied for seventh in club history.

BIRD FOOD: Pelicans utility man CHESNY YOUNG, outfielder MARK ZAGUNIS and manager MARK JOHNSON were named to the Carolina League Year-End All-Star roster...For the first time since 2000, the Pelicans had a .500 or better record against all seven Carolina League opponents in the regular season...The Pelicans last won a Mills Cup in 2000...The club has made the Mills Cup Finals four times in the previous eight trips to the playoffs...Myrtle Beach is 2-2 in playoff games against Wilmington, splitting the 1999 Mills Cup Finals.

PROSPECT 8-PACK: Seven players on the Pelicans' roster are ranked in the Cubs Top 30 prospects according to MLBPipeline.com's Prospect Watch and seven are in Baseball America's Top 30. RHPs PAUL BLACKBURN (NR by MLB.com/No. 18 Baseball America), JEREMY NULL (29/NR), DAURY TORREZ (28/30), JEN-HO TSENG (16/11), DUANE UNDERWOOD (4/10), catcher VICTOR CARATINI (22/13), infielder GLEYBER TORRES (1/6), and OF MARK ZAGUNIS (9/15). Baseball America also lauded a handful of Pelicans players with "Best Tools" labels. Caratini is the "Best Defensive Catcher" in the system according to the 2015 Prospect Handbook, CARLOS PENALVER as the "Best Defensive Infielder," Tseng has the "Best Control" and "Best Changeup," Underwood possesses the "Best Fastball," and Zagunis has "Best Strike Zone Discipline." Outfielders BILLY MCKINNEY (2/6), JACOB HANNEMANN (27/17, and BA's "Fastest Baserunner"), 3B JEIMER CANDELARIO (19/24), and JUAN PANIAGUA (top "Sleeper" prospect) were on the roster but have since been promoted. ANDREW ELY, named by BA as the "Best Defensive Player" from the Cubs 2014 draft class, was on the club's Opening Day roster but went down to South Bend. 2B DANIEL LOCKHART was at one point ranked #29 by MLB.com but is no longer.

MYRTLE BEACH PELICANS LINEUP

3 Chesny Young DH

20 Pin-Chieh Chen CF

45 Jorge Soler RF

17 Victor Caratini C

6 Mark Zagunis LF

27 Jacob Rogers 1B

44 Jason Vosler 3B

1 Gleyber Torres SS

7 Daniel Lockhart 2B

19 Jen-Ho Tseng RHP

WILMINGTON BLUE ROCKS LINEUP

7 Carlos Garcia DH

11 Jack Lopez SS

29 Mauricio Ramos 3B

32 Ryan O'Hearn 1B

13 Elier Hernandez RF

35 Cam Gallagher 35

4 Humberto Arteaga 2B

23 Dominique Taylor CF

12 Logan Moon LF

38 Zach Lovvorn RHP

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