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Cerros named player of the week

AP- Jacksonville Pellicans right fielder Jason Cerros was named CO-AL MVP for the second week of April. Cerros batted .640 with 2HR and 9 RBI for the week.

Jacksonville Pelicans (Truby 0-0) @ Boston Red sox (Matsuzaks 1-1) - 4/14

Boston- The Pelicans got a strong, 8 inning effort from Norton Truby and a four hit performance from Eric Cressend to get past the Boston Red Sox in the first game of a three game series at Fenway.
Kirk Orie opened the game with a single and moved to second on a Kevin McLeary ground out. Eric Cressend then doubled to right center, driving in Orie.
The Pelicans looked like they were going to go quietly in the third but, with two outs, Hal Darula and Cressend singled. David Oropesa followed with a little blooper over second, that just illuded the glove of Dustin Pedroia, to drive in a run.
The Red Sox got on the board in the bottom of the inning. Julio Lugo reached on a fielder’s choice then stole second base. Jacoby Ellsbury then followed with an RBI double to cut the Pelican lead to one.
A Jason Cerros RBI double in the eighth and a Cressend RBI single in the ninth put Jacksonville up three.
Ken Merricks came in to pitch the bottom of the ninth. After giving up a leadoff single to Ellsbuy, Merricks got Kevin Youkalis to ground into a double play and David Ortiz to strike out to end the game.

Box Score
JAC:4
BOS:1
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WP: Truby (1-0)
LP: Matsuzaka (1-2)
SV: Merricks (2)
Pelicans: Truby (W), 8IP, 4H, 6K, 1ER; Cressend 4-5, 2B, 2RBI
Red Sox: Ellsbury 2-4, 2B, RBI; Ramirez 1-3, K

Pelicans (6-7) Red Sox (8-5)

Jacksonville Pelicans (Crabtree 1-0) @ Kansas City Royals (Hochevar 0-0) 4/18

Kansas City- With three regulars resting last night, the Pelican reserves did a good job picking up the slack. The Jacksonville bullpen also did a marvelous job, pitching a combined three scoreless innings.
Jacksonville got the scoring started in the second on a Kirk Orie RBI single. They would add a second run in the third. Hal Darula and Dan Johnson both singled, moved up on a pass ball, and Jason Cerros singled home Darula.
The Royals got one back in the fourth. Mark Tehan and Jose Guillen led off the inning with singles. Crabtree induced a ground ball double play and looked to be just about out of the jam, but Ross Gload delivered an RBI single to get Kansas City on the board.
Jacksonville got the run back in the very next inning. After a Darula single and Johnson double, Alexander Dawley delivered an RBI single.
The Royals would get a run each in the bottom of the fifth and sixh. Estaban German delivered an RBI single in the fifth and Ross Gload drove in his second of the game in the sixth.
The Pelicans took the lead for good in the seventh. Johnson drove in a with a sac fly and the combination of Benjamin Totten, Juan Estrella and Ken Merricks combined to shut the Royals down and give the Pelicans the series opening win.

Box Score
JAX:4
KC:3
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WP: Crabtree (2-0)
LP: Soria (1-3)
SV: Merricks (4)
Pelicans: Darula 5-5, 2R; Johnson 3-4, 2B, RBI
Royals: Gload 2-4, 2RBI; Guillen 2-4, 2B, R


Pelicans (8-8) Royals (6-10)

Dan Johnson earns player of the week honors

Dan Johnson was named CO-AL MVP for the third week of the season. Johnson batted .545 with 2HR and 10RBIs for the week.

Jacksonville Pelicans (Truby 1-0) @ Texas Rangers (Gabbard 1-1) 4/21

Arlington- The Texas Rangers used a huge, seven run sixth inning, to trounce the Jacksonville Pelicans last night 10-5. Pelicans starting pitcher also had to leave the game with an injured elbow in the sixth as well, though the extent of his injury is not yet known.
The Pelicans got off to a great start, the suddenly red hot Dan Johnson launched a three run first inning homerun to put the Pelicans up early.
The Rangers tied the game in the fourth. Josh Hamilton and Milton Bradley singled and moved up on a fielders choice. Frank Catalannato drove them both in with an RBI double and Gerald Laird followed with an RBI single.
A SAC fly RBI from Johnson in the fifth and an RBI single from Victor Senreiso put the Pelicans up two.
The wheels completely fell of in the bottom of the sixth for Jacksonville. Milton Bradley started off the Ranger barrage with a solo homerun. Laird would add an RBI single, Ian Kinsler a 2 RBI single, Michale Young would then hit an RBI triple and Josh Hamilton capped off the scoring in the inning clubbing a 2 run homerun. Truby tried to to continue the inning, put hurt his elbow two pitches later and had to leave the game.
"We will know more about the injury tomorrow," said manager Scott0530. " We just hope everything is ok."

Box Score
JAX:5
TEX:10
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WP: Mendoza (2-0)
LP: Truby (1-1)
HR: Johnson (6); Hamilton (2), Bradley (3)
Pelicans: Johnson 2-4, HR, 4RBI, R; Cressend 2-5, R
Rangers: Hamlilton 2-5, HR, 2RBI, 2R; Bradley 2-4, HR, RBI, 2R

Norton Truby goes to DL with injured elbow

Jacksonville- The Jacksonville Pelicans have placed P Norton Truby on the 15 day DL with elbow soreness. Ed Norton will take Truby's place in the rotation and the Pelicans have called up reliever Phil Venafro to fill the roster.

OK, so this log is back! I moved from Jersey to Florida the beginning of May and, between starting a new job, unpacking and everything else that goes with relocating, I haven't had time to get into updating my log. Now that things finally settled down a bit, I can start making updates again. Sorry to those of you who were following for the long delay.

Yay! It's back!

Welcome to sunny FLA - you could have picked a better time to move - like January or February, but I hear Jersey is brutally hot, too. At least Central Jersey.

Are you in Jacksomville, like your team?

I had been looking to move down here since January. A job came up so I had to move. I don't mind the heat, it's the cold I'm escaping
I'm actually on the other side of I-4 from you about 30-40 minutes from downtown Orlando.

Cool. Check out Aquatica - it's a cool water park

Jacksonville Pelicans (Crabtree 2-0) @ Oakland Athletics (DiNardio 0-1) 4/25

Oakland- This weeks four game slugfest with the Texas Rangers has left the Jacksonville pitching staff over worked and exhausted. But the Pelicans got exactly what they needed last night, getting a strong performance from starter Adam Crabtree. Crabtree allowed just two runs (one earned) in pitching a solid 5.2 innings helping the Pelicans take game one of a three game set in Oakland.
In the first inning, with Eric Cressend and Dan Johnson aboard on second and third, David Oropesa drove them both in with a 2 RBI single to right
The A's would pick up an unearned run in the second. Bobby Crosby and Mike Sweeny both singled and moved up on a pass ball. Travis Buck appeared to pop out to third, which would have ended the inning, but Eric Cressened dropped the easy pop allowing Crosby to score from third.
The Pelicans came back and picked up a run in the third. After Cressend walked, Dan Johnson drilled a double to right center and Cressened scored all the way from first.
In the bottom of the third Frank Thomas drove a ball over right fielder Dustin Huffman's head and Chris Denorfia scored from second.
Both teams bullpens then held the other team down, allowing no more runs to score. The Pelicans pen was extremely impressive. Over the final 3.1 innings, the combination of Ben Totten, Juan Estrella and Ken Merricks didn't even allow a hit and struck out three.

Box Score
JAX:3
OAK:2
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WP: Crabtree (3-0)
LP: DiNardo (0-2)
SV: Merricks (6)
Pelicans: Crabtree 5.2 IP, 4H, 1ER, 4H, 4K, 0BB; Johnson 3-4, 2 2B, RBI, R
Athletics: Thomas 1-4, 2B, RBI; Crosby 1-3, R

Pelicans (12-11) Athletics (12-11)

Pelicans make big deal by acquiring Baldelli from Rays

Jacksonville- The Jacksonville Pelicans made some noise early in their inaugural season as they have acquired CF Rocco Baldelli (2/D9/E91/B12/C10/E7/D8) from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for minor league catcher Al Budzinski (.235 E7/E94/E6/D8/D8/D8) and cash. Baldelli is hitting just .160 in 23 games this year, but GM Scott0530 isn't concerned at all.
"We are excited to have Rocco. I said at the beginning of the year that are biggest issue is lack of team speed; and no true leadoff hitter. Rocco gives us terrific speed at the top of the line up. He is capable of stealing bases, scoring from first, even moving on hit and runs; tremendous flexibility. Defensively, we get a huge boost. Again, lack of speed in the outfield has really hurt us; not being able to get to short fly balls or get to balls hit in the gap. Having Rocco will really help us out in that area. As far as his current average is concerned; it's early yet. Rocco's a good hitter and there is no way he will keep hitting .160."
Baldelli is expected to join the team tonight and will get the start in centerfield. Victor Senreiso, who had started most of the teams games in center, will move to the bench as the teams fourth outfielder. To make room on the roster for Baldelli, the Pelicans have sent Kevin McLeary to AAA St. Augustine Haunt.

Texas Rangers (Millwood 1-3) VS. Jacksonville Pelicans (Diagle 1-2) 4/28

Jacksonville- The Pelicans survived a multi-run eighth inning from Texas and fought back to earn a win in the opening game of a four game set against the Texas Rangers last night in Jacksonville's first home game in two weeks.
Rocco Baldelli doubled with one out and scored two batters latter on an Eric Cressend RBI single.
Sam Diagle held the Texas offence down over 5.1 innings and was relieved by Ben Totten in the sixth. Totten was greeted to the game by serving up a solo homerun to Ian Kinsler, tying the game at one.
The usually dependable Juan Estrella came on in the eighth and had a rare bad inning. Kinsler opened the inning with a single and Michael Young followed with a double. Kinsler would score on a Milton Bradley ground out and Hank Blaylock drove in a run with a single.
The Pelicans would retake the lead in the bottom of the inning. Cressend singled, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on a David Oropesa double. Kirk Orie singled and Jason Cerros, Don Henson and Baldelli all followed with RBI singles.
Ken Merricks made it interesting in the ninth, allowing base runners, but got Ben Broussard to ground out to end he game

Box Score
TEX:3
JAC:5
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WP: Estrella (1-0)
LP: Wright (1-2)
SV: Merricks (9)
HR: Kinsler (4)
Rangers: Kinsler 2-4, HR, RBI, 2R; Bradley 2-4, 2B, RBI
Pelicans: Baldelli 3-5, 2B, RBI, R; Oropesa 3-3, 2 2B, RBI, R, BB


Rangers (9-17) Pelicans (15-11)

April team leaders

Average (Min 100 AB)
1. Jason Cerros .441 (MLB Rank 1)
2. Dan Johnson .420 (MLB Rank 2)
3. Kirk Orie .386

Home Runs
1. Dan Johnson 10
2. Eric Cressend 6
3. David Oropesa 3

RBI
1. Dan Johnson 35 (MLB Rank T-1)
2. Eric Cressend 21
3. Jason Cerros 16

ERA (MIN 10 innings)
1. Joe Wesson 2.03
2. Sam Diagle 2.16
Juan Estrella 2.70

Wins
1. Adam Crabtree 3
2. Ben Totten 2
2. Rocky Bernard 2

Strikeouts
1. Sam Diagle 24
2. Zane Bouknight 22
3. Adam Crabtree 18