Wild One with Nationals Suspended by Rain
Published on June 2, 2015 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Myrtle Beach Pelicans News Release
WOODBRIDGE, VA (JUNE 1, 2015) - In a game that began as a pitchers' duel, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, Class A-Advanced affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, had their game against the Potomac Nationals suspended due to rain after a back-and-forth tenth inning at Pfitzner Stadium on Monday.
With the contest tied at two runs apiece, Pin-Chieh Chen singled with one out in the tenth inning. Chesny Young then lined a base hit to right field, but Chen was thrown out attempting to reach third base. As the rainfall intensified, Jeimer Candelario popped a fly ball to shallow right field, but former Pelicans second baseman Christopher Bostick dropped the catch, allowing Young to score the go-ahead run.
The Nationals struck again when Bostick led off the bottom of the frame with a triple. He flared a shallow fly ball to left-center field, and as the center fielder Chen and left fielder Kevin Brown converged, the ball skipped past both men to put the tying run 90 feet from home plate. Shortstop Stephen Perez tied the game with a sacrifice fly to left field, but with a 2-2 count on Isaac Ballou, the next hitter, the game went into a delay.
After a 34-minute rain delay, the game was suspended.
The suspended game will be picked up where it was when the delay began, in a tie 3-3 in the tenth inning with a 2-2 count against Ballou and with one out and no runners on base.
Before weather interfered, the game sailed into the sixth inning with no score until Victor Caratini broke it open with a bases-loaded double that scored two runs. After back-to-back one-out singles in the bottom of the same inning, Nationals first baseman John Wooten slapped a game-tying double to left field to even the score at 2-2. Until that point, Pelicans starting pitcher Jen-Ho Tseng had worked around nine base hits. The double to Wooten ended the right-hander's night after 5 1/3 innings on the mound and a career-high ten hits allowed. He allowed two runs, both earned, while walking one and striking out one.
Right-hander Juan Paniagua came on and induced a ground ball back to the mound before striking out right fielder Estarlin Martinez looking, stranding the go-ahead run in scoring position. Paniagua worked 3 1/3 scoreless innings in relief with four strikeouts.
In his second appearance against the Birds this year, Nationals starter Lucas Giolito took a no decision despite striking out nine Pelicans batters through five shutout innings. He walked two and surrendered two hits.
The suspended game will resume on Tuesday, June 2, at 5:00 p.m. ET. A regular nine-inning contest will be played as the series finale with the first pitch approximately 35 minutes after the conclusion of Monday's suspended game.
In the regularly scheduled series finale, the Pelicans will still start right-hander Jonathan Martinez (3-1, 3.00) while the Nationals will counter with righty John Simms (2-4, 4.60).
Tuesday's games can be heard live, presented by Courtyard Myrtle Beach at Barefoot Landing, on 1450 WRNN-AM ESPN Myrtle Beach, on the TuneIn Radio App, and via the MiLB First Pitch App, beginning with the Pregame Show at 4:40 p.m. ET.
The 2015 season marks the 17th season for the Pelicans franchise and first as the Class A-Advanced affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. For information on tickets to see the Pelicans in 2015, please call (843) 918-6000, e-mail info@myrtlebeachpelicans.com, or visit www.MyrtleBeachPelicans.com.
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