Pelicans right-hander Edwardo Melendez was activated off the Development List.
South Bend left-hander Ethan Flanagan was activated off the Development List.
Only the Pelicans won today.
Iowa Cubs
The Iowa Cubs fell to Indianapolis (Pirates), 3-1.
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Jordan Wicks started and took the loss after allowing two runs on five hits over five innings. Wicks walked two and struck out two.
Catcher Christian Bethancourt went 2 for 4 with an RBI double with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
Knoxville Smokies
The Knoxville Smokies were put out by the Chattanooga Lookouts (Reds), 11-4. However, this game meant nothing as the Smokies clinched the first-half yesterday.
Brooks Caple started and took the loss after surrendering five runs on six hits over four innings. Four of those runs came in the top of the first inning. Caple walked three and struck out five.
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Third baseman Devin Ortiz hit a three-run home run in the fifth inning, his third of the season. Ortiz went 1 for 4.
Center fielder Carter Trice was 2 for 3 with an RBI double and a walk. He scored on Ortiz’s home run.
The Ortiz home run.
South Bend Cubs
The South Bend Cubs got baked by the Ft. Wayne TinCaps (Padres), 6-2.
Jaxon Wiggins started this game on a rehab assignment. He allowed one hit—a solo home run to lead off the second inning—over 2.2 innings. He walked two and struck out three.
The loss went to Ethan Flanagan, who pitched a scoreless fifth and sixth inning. But then he came out for the seventh inning and gave up three runs. Flanagan’s final line was three runs on five hits over three innings. He struck out four and walked no one.
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South Bend managed just five hits. DH Kane Kepley was 2 for 2 with an RBI double, a walk. and he was hit by a pitch.
Kepley’s double.
Myrtle Beach Pelicans
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans egged the Delmarva Shorebirds (Orioles), 7-2.
Braylon Myers started and got the win. He made pretty much one mistake, a two-run home run in the fourth inning. Other than that, his final line was two runs on five hits over five innings. He struck out five and walked no one.
Daniel Avitia pitched the next three innings without allowing a run. Avitia gave up one hit, walked three and struck out four.
Catcher Logan Poteet homered for the third-straight game and for the 13th time this year. It was a solo home run in the fourth. Poteet went 2 for 4 with a walk. He scored three times.
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First baseman Michael Carico hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning, his seventh on the year. Carico was 1 for 4 with a walk and two runs scored.
DH Edward Vargas was 2 for 4 with a stolen base and an RBI infield single in the fifth inning. He also scored one run.
Left fielder Darlyn De Leon went 2 for 4 with an RBI single in the fourth inning. Poteet
Shortstop Derniche Valdez was 2 for 5 with a stolen base.
Poteet’s home run.
Vargas’ infield single actually scored two with the throwing error.
Carico’s home run.
ACL Cubs
Off day.
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