The Myrtle Beach Pelicans turned a season of broken series and homestand attendance records into another milestone by setting a new mark for average attendance per game along with a slew of other single-season records

It would’ve been almost impossible for the 2009 Pelicans to replicate the season their predecessors had.

The 2009 Myrtle Beach Pelicans season ends tonight. Despite a last place finish on the field and a bad year for the economy, the Pelicans nearly set all-time highs in attendance.

After a series opener in which the Pelicans scored five and picked up a victory Wednesday, the Potomac Nationals have showcased the reasons behind their second-half resurgence: pitching and defense, the hallmarks of good baseball.

Cody Johnson continued his 2009 home run barrage, but his bat was the only one to show up Tuesday night for the Pelicans.  Starters Cole Rohrbough and Brad Peacock dueled for seven innings, but the Nationals produced six runs in the fourth and eighth in a 6-1 win.

The Pelicans carried a two-run lead and a lot of confidence with their shutdown closer entering for a four-out save in the eighth inning. Brandon Waring and the Frederick Keys didn’t see it that way.

The Pelicans used a 5-for-5 night from Donell Linares and a late home run to take the series opener with the Lynchburg Hillcats 9-6 at City Stadium.

With their backs to the wall in the midst of one of the worst stretches of a roller-coaster 2009 season, the Salem Red Sox responded with a convincing sweep of the Pelicans, and now it’s Myrtle Beach’s turn to face the brink.

When it rains, it pours, and sometimes you run into a monsoon. Game three of a four-game series with for the Pelicans and Salem Red Sox Wednesday night might have felt like a hurricane for the home team.

Hillcats take advantage of four Pelicans errors on the way to a 7-1 win Friday night at BB&T Coastal Field.

Tim Hudson’s second rehab start was not as strong as his first, and he was saddled with the loss in the Pelicans 5-3 defeat at the hands of Wilmington Thursday night.

Squeezing out a 1-0 win in the series opener, the Pelicans got by with little offensive production. With their bats again quiet in the middle contest of a three-game set with the Wilmington Blue Rocks, the Pelicans weren’t so fortunate on the defensive end.

It’s not often that the Pelicans look to the power bat of outfielder Cole Miles, but in the first of three games with the Wilmington Blue Rocks, Miles muscled Myrtle Beach to a win.

Four errors doom the Pelicans against the Dash Monday night as Winston-Salem took the finale and the three-game series by way of a 7-3 victory. The loss dropped the Pelicans another half-game behind idle Salem in the Carolina League Southern Division.

Tim Hudson hasn’t pitched in almost a year. But on Sunday night it was obvious that he had not forgotten what had made him a two time all-star and 20 game winner. Hudson pitched two hitless innings in his rehab start in Myrtle Beach, as the Pelicans topped the Dash 7-2.