It’s the last of the ninth and your baseball team needs one run to win the game.

What do you yell? Go Coast? Go Parrots? Go Regulators?

Your team is the new Long Beach minor league team in the Pioneer Baseball League, but it hasn’t played a game yet — and it needs a name.

Team owners have had a naming contest for a few weeks and have narrowed the names down to three finalists: Coast, Parrots and Regulators. Voting on these three names ends at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29.

Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson has called Long Beach a baseball town, but he hasn’t announced his favorite name.

“All the names are great; we can make any one of them work,” Richardson said. “I love the process of having people vote on the name. It’s great to have fun and get the community excited. I’m not stating my favorite ahead of time because I don’t want to influence the outcome.”

The Long Beach team will be the latest addition to the Pioneer Baseball League, a Major League Baseball Partner League that boasts 12 teams in the western United States. Other MLB Partner League teams are in the American Association, Atlantic League and Frontier League.

The new Long Beach team will share Blair Field with Cal State Long Beach’s popular Dirtbags team. Blair Field, 4700 Deukmejian Drive, in Recreation Park, opened in 1958 and is named after Frank Blair, sports editor of the Press-Telegram from 1921 to 1953.

There have been other adult baseball teams at Blair Field over the years, including the Barracudas, Riptides, Armada and Breakers.

Here is a look at each of the three name finalists:

Long Beach Coast

One of Long Beach’s best known attributes is its coast. The city has 11 miles of coastline, with almost seven miles of that being beaches. The rest includes one of the busiest ports in the country, the downtown marina and multiple icons — such as the Aquarium of the Pacific and the Queen Mary.

Because of the curve in the California coastline, the beaches here are south facing and, according to surfing legends of the past, it once made for great surfing waves until the federal government built the breakwater in the 1940s to protect the ships at the naval base.

The Long Beach coastline can also boast that it has the only legal off-leash dog beach in all of Los Angeles County at Rosie’s Dog Beach.

If Long Beach Coast is the winning name, will the diverse coastline provide inspiration for a team logo, mascot and merchandise opportunities?

Go Coast!

Long Beach Parrots

If the winning name is Parrots, would fans be called Parrot Heads, like the longtime fans of music legend Jimmy Buffett? Just imagine a Margaritaville vibe at Blair Field, with people wearing tropical shirts and parrot hats.

A commenter on Facebook, who likes the Parrots name, said, “When a home run is hit, fans can yell, “Squaaawwwkkk!” Maybe some of the parrot population of Long Beach will come and watch the games for free and join in the squawking.

Where did these wild green parrots come from? There are many theories about the origin of these brilliantly colorful birds, including everything from pet birds that escaped or were released, to fires in pet stores in Pasadena and San Pedro, to birds that escaped while being imported illegally to the United States. Most of the species came from Central and South America and settled in tall palm trees in the Belmont Shore area and eucalyptus trees near Cal State Long Beach and Ocean Boulevard.

Sightings of these birds by residents go back decades. In many cases, you hear them before you see them. A 1973 article in the Press-Telegram mentioned a reader spotting five birds in her walnut tree in Lakewood. These birds, who have adapted well to their Southern California habitat, have greatly multiplied since then.

Some years ago, my wife, Pat, attended a water aerobics class in the outdoor pool at CSULB. During the class, a large flock of parrots would noisily fly over the pool on their way back to their favorite roosting spots in trees along the Long Beach shore.

According to experts who have studied these birds, the large campus, with its variety of plants, has been a popular feeding area for the parrots. Supporters say that parrots reflect the dynamic and resilient character of Long Beach. They also live long. My brother Dave lives in Chicago with his pet parrot, Chico — who is 55 years old.

In addition to their squawking, one encyclopedic source said that a parrot’s beak is “one of the most powerful crushing mechanisms in nature.” Great to use against an opposing baseball team!

Go, Parrots!

Long Beach Regulators

Long Beach Regulators? For those older readers (like me) who are unfamiliar with music genres from the 1990s onward, listen up for a little history. The name Regulators pays serious homage to Long Beach as being the original home, along with Compton, of West Coast rap and hip hop.

In 1990, three young men in Long Beach formed a rap group called 213, which was the area code for the city back then. They were Warren Griffin III (better known as Warren G.), Calvin Broadus, Jr. (better known as Snoop Dogg) and his first cousin Nathaniel Hale (better known as Nate Dogg). They recorded their first demo tape in the back of the famous VIP Record store on Pacific Coast Highway and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. Warren G. gave the recording to his older stepbrother, Andre Young (better known as Dr. Dre). Dr. Dre’s 1989 album “Straight Outta Compton” was very successful and important to the beginnings of the West Coast hip hop scene. Dr. Dre, who was also a record producer, helped establish the careers of the 213 trio — especially Snoop Dogg.

By 1994, the 213 trio had established solo careers. That year, Warren G. released “Regulate,” a huge hit that went triple platinum for record sales. It was a duet co-written and performed by Warren G. and Nate Dogg, whose deep voice was in demand by other musical artists. (In his youth, Nate sang at the New Hope Baptist Church in Long Beach, where his father was a pastor.) The song is recognized as one of the greatest hip hop tracks of all time and has influenced many artists that followed.

The song tells a story about a night in Long Beach that features the gritty side of life but also friendship. The lyrics refer to the city as “LBC” and in the video (which you can watch on YouTube for free), there’s a brief look at the street signs at the corner of 21st and Lewis streets, which is not far from the VIP Record store and deep in the hip-hop heart of Long Beach.

By the way, Warren G. is also an enthusiastic part owner of Long Beach’s soon-to-be-named new baseball team.

Nate Dogg, who died in 2011 when he was only 41 after having multiple strokes, has a sister, Pamela Hale Armstead, who lives in Long Beach and is an English teacher at the Skirball Middle School in Watts. She is the former religion writer for the Press-Telegram. Guess what her favorite name is?

Go, Regulators!

How to vote

Votes for the name of the new Long Beach baseball team can be cast online and in person at various locations.  Voting ends on Wednesday (Oct. 29). You can vote online at longbeachbaseballclub.com.

You can vote at these in-person locations:

d’Arnaud Athletics, 3940 E. Gilman St.
Long Beach Airport, 4100 Donald Douglas Drive.
Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library, 5870 Atlantic Ave.
SteelCraft Long Beach, 3768 Long Beach Blvd.
SteelCraft Bellflower, 16500 Bellflower Blvd.
Watch Me! Sports Bar, 6527 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Unit B-2.
Annex Training Center, 2431 Orange Ave., Signal Hill.
Precise Barbershop, 5223 Atlantic Ave.