CarL1 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

Red Sox Stay Hot, Throttle Myrtle Beach

Published on August 12, 2009 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Myrtle Beach Pelicans News Release


MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - When it rains, it pours, and sometimes you run into a monsoon. Game three of a four-game series with for the Pelicans and Salem Red Sox might have felt like a hurricane for the home team.

The Pelicans ran into a suddenly-hot Salem Red Sox buzzsaw in game three, dropping the chance at a series split with a 16-2 loss in front of 3,265 fans at BB&T Coastal Field.

Salem's eventual 20-hit onslaught started innocently enough with a run in the first and two more in the third sandwiched around a single Pelicans tally in the bottom of the second. The Red Sox started to open the gap with three runs in the fourth, getting back-to-back inning-opening singles by David Mailman and Jered Stanley followed by hit batsmen Aaron Reza and Kris Negron, the latter scoring a run. Sacrifice flies by Che-Hsuan Lin and Jon Hee plated two. Pelicans starter Brandon Beachy (2-3) didn't last past the fourth, allowing six runs-five earned-on six hits over four.

The Red Sox exploded in the sixth, sending 13 men to the plate and scoring eight. Salem did it all without an extra-base hit until Reza's second at-bat of the frame. Every Red Sox player reached at least once in the inning with Reza scoring a pair. Tim Federowicz, Mike Jones, Chih-Hsien Chiang, Mailman, Reza and Negron all tallied at least one RBI in the eight-run frame. The Red Sox had scored six runs over their previous five games entering this series in Myrtle Beach. They nearly tripled that total Wednesday night. Pelicans relievers Tommy Palica and Benino Pruneda were charged with all eight sixth-inning Salem runs. Rudy Darrow allowed another two Salem tallies in the seventh on a night when the Pelicans used six total pitchers.

Kyle Weiland (4-9) picked up the win for Salem going five innings and allowing both Pelicans runs on five hits.

No more fitting a microcosm of the night there could have been than when, with one out in the bottom of the seventh, Myrtle Beach designated hitter Jon Mark Owings ducked out of the way of a Robert Coello pitch. The pitch hit Owings's bat behind his head and rolled into fair territory where Coello picked it up and retired the Pelicans' DH.

The Pelicans will try to salvage the series finale of this four-game set Thursday night at BB&T Coastal Field sending Richard Sullivan (2-10, 4.00) against Salem's Dave McKae (1-5, 5.46). Tickets for all Pelicans home games are available at the BB&T Coastal Field box office, by calling (843)918-6000 or by visiting the Tickets page at MyrtleBeachPelicans.com.

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