Birds can't overcome P-Nats' five-run second

WOODBRIDGE, Va. (August 8, 2017) - A five-run Potomac second inning Tuesday propelled the Nationals by the Myrtle Beach Pelicans 7-2 at Pftizner Stadium.
Myrtle Beach (59-55, 16-28) led 1-0 when starter Casey Bloomquist (3-5) ceded a single to Ian Sagdal and double to Jackson Reetz to begin the second inning. David Masters followed with an RBI single to tie before Rhett Wiseman hit a sacrifice fly to right to give Potomac (51-62, 18-25) the 2-1 lead. Edwin Lora singled, and two batters later, Daniel Johnson ripped a two-run double. Jack Sundberg then lined an RBI single to right to widen the gap to 5-1.

Nationals starter Taylor Guilbeau (3-3) rolled from there. The southpaw yielded just two runs, one earned, on four hits in seven frames. He whiffed eight against one walk. Guilbeau combined with relievers Ronald Peña and R.C. Orlan to retire the final 13 Pelicans to come to the plate.
With the score still 5-1, Tyler Alamo jumpstarted the fifth inning with a double. He moved to third on a fly ball to right, and two batters after that, an error brought him in to move Myrtle Beach to within 5-2.
In the eighth, Masters singled to leadoff before Wiseman cracked a two-run home run to right to put the P-Nats ahead at 7-2.
The Birds got on the board in their first at-bats. Zack Short tripled on the second pitch of the game before P.J. Higgins notched an RBI groundout to give Myrtle Beach a 1-0 advantage.
Both Scott Effross and Kyle Miller worked two scoreless innings out of the bullpen for the Pelicans.
The 2017 season is the 19th season for the Pelicans franchise and third as the Class A-Advanced affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. For information on tickets to see the Pelicans in 2017, please call (843) 918-6000, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.MyrtleBeachPelicans.com.
ABOUT THE PELICANS: The Myrtle Beach Pelicans are the Class A-Advanced affiliate of the Chicago Cubs and play their home games at TicketReturn.Com Field at Pelicans Ballpark in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The park has ranked in the top eight in all of Minor League Baseball by Stadium Journey in each of the last six seasons. The same publication also placed the Pelicans in the Top 100 Stadium Experiences in all of sports in each of the last six years and the best in the Carolina League for six straight seasons as well. In May 2015, TicketReturn.Com Field at Pelicans Ballpark won the 2015 TripAdvisor.com Certificate of Excellence award. The Pelicans are the two-time defending Mills Cup Champions, winning the title in 2015 and 2016 as well as 2000 and co-Mills Cup championship honors in the inaugural 1999 season. The Pelicans have made ten postseason appearances behind 12 half-season Southern Division championships, including the first half of the 2015 season and second half of 2016. For more information on the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, please contact the Pelicans at (843) 918-6000 or emailing [email protected].