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Wickswat Dominates to Give Dash Abbreviated Finale

July 8, 2011 - Carolina League (CarL1)
Myrtle Beach Pelicans News Release


WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - In just his second start of the year, lefty Matt Wickswat suffocated the Pelicans over seven innings, striking out five, not walking a man and blanking Myrtle Beach on just two hits, and the Dash got three runs batted in from Jared Mitchell in a 5-0 rain-shortened finale win Friday night at BB&T Ballpark.

Taking on a Pelicans offense that had scored 15 runs on 29 hits while splitting the first two games of this three-game set, Wickswat showed why the choice to insert him into the rotation may be a very good one. The southpaw from Santa Clara University allowed a one-out double to Zach Zaneski in the second inning for Myrtle Beach's first hit and then proceeded to retire 15 in a row. Mitch Hilligoss's one-out single in the seventh snapped that streak, but Ryan Strausborger's inning-ending double-play ball one batter later kept Wickswat (1-1) at one over the minimum faced for his day.

Former first-round pick Jared Mitchell, starting to find a groove in his first professional season with the White Sox after an injury-erased 2010, got Winston on the board with a two-out RBI double in the bottom of the third inning to score Tyler Saladino and make it 1-0 Dash. Two innings later, Saladino tripled with two outs, and Mitchell homered off Pelicans starter Wilfredo Boscan to give Winston some breathing room at 3-0.

Boscan (2-6) suffered his fourth straight defeat, allowing two more runs while not getting out of the seventh inning. The right-hander, whose current losing streak comes on the heels of a five-start span in which he went 2-0 with a 1.47 ERA, was charged with all five Winston-Salem tallies, walking two, striking out two, and allowing eight hits to the Dash.

The Pelicans' only offensive threat mustered came in the top of the eighth when they put Travis Adair on with a one-out single and David Paisano aboard on a base hit of his own with two gone, but reliever Orlando Santos got out of the inning with no damage done. Myrtle Beach's two hits that inning equaled their offensive output for the entire game to that point.

With two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, a rainstorm of biblical proportions hit BB&T Ballpark with lightning, thunder, and torrential downpours that flooded the entire playing surface forcing the game's early completion. During the delay, members of the Myrtle Beach roster, stranded in the dugout by the deluge, did face-first slides across the inundated outfield grass to the delight of those of the sellout 6,673-person crowd still in attendance.

Having dropped five of their first seven on their current ten-game road trip, the Pelicans have now lost seven of their last nine and head to Wilmington Saturday through Monday looking to salvage at least one series on this three-city swing.

Following this ten-game road trip, the Pelicans return home for the first of four with the Salem Red Sox at BB&T Coastal Field from July 13-16. Tickets for all Pelicans home games can be purchased by visiting the BB&T Coastal Field box office, the Tickets page at MyrtleBeachPelicans.com, or by calling (843)918-6000 or (877)918-TIXX.

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