Wisely Homers Twice in RiverDogs Season-Opening Victory Brett Wisely hit 2 HR s to lead the RiverDogs to a win on opening night over Myrtle Beach (Source: Charleston RiverDogs) By Charleston RiverDogs | May 5, 2021 at 1:40 AM EDT - Updated May 5 at 8:20 AM
Charleston, SC Brett Wisely and four members of the pitching staff made sure that the long-anticipated return of the Charleston RiverDogs was worth the wait. Wisely hit a pair of solo home runs and the pitching staff combined to collect 15 strikeouts in a 6-3 win over the Myrtle Beach Pelicans on Tuesday night at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park.
VIDEO: RiverDogs win season opener over Pelicans 6-3
Cubs minor leagues: Get to know the Myrtle Beach Pelicans
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(tap, tap, tap.) Ahem. Is this thing on? Is it still working? I don’t remember how to turn it on anymore. We’re really going to do this thing, huh? OK. Let’s go. I’ll give it my best shot.
On September 14, 2019, the South Bend Cubs beat the Clinton LumberKings 5-0 to sweep the best-of-five series three games to none and claim the Midwest League title. Five hundred and eighty-eight days later, on Tuesday, May 4, there will be Cubs teams playing minor league baseball again.
Cubs minor leagues: Get to know the South Bend Cubs
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Our second stop in our preview of the Cubs minor league system takes us to South Bend and the Cubs “new” High-A affiliate, the South Bend Cubs.
Please note that this preview is based on the Opening Day rosters that were announced last Friday. It’s actually common to see some changes in the roster before Opening Day, as players either get hurt or get healthy in the meantime. Or in the world that we live in these days, they could be in quarantine. Let’s hope that last one doesn’t happen, but it might.
At last viewing, the Iowa Cubs were in the middle of dropping the conference title series after winning their conference in the Pacific Coast League’s regular season. What we didn’t know then, of course, was that a novel coronavirus would begin to spread overseas a few months later, reaching the United States after the turn of the new year, and taking so much down with it, including the 2020 minor league season.
That Iowa Cubs playoff series was just over 600 days ago. The last Minor League Baseball we saw. Think about how long it’s been.
Minor League Baseball returns, finally, tomorrow. It looks considerably different than it did in those days, now with just four full-season affiliates per organization, no short-season Low-A, and everything kicking off much later than we’re used to. Fortunately for Cubs fans, the four full-season affiliates are familiar: the Triple-A Iowa Cubs (roster discussion here), the Double-A Tennessee Smokies (roster discussion), the High-A South Be
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