2015 BASEBALL BLURBS BY BRUCE | TUESDAY | JULY 7, 2015 | VS PAGE 1

BASEBALL BLURBS BY BRUCE

Bruce Bennett, AppleSox Statistician

Bend 7, Wenatchee 2 last night.

Bend (23-5) at Wenatchee (11-14) 7:05 tonight.

Miscellany - Half the season is over. Last night was game 29 of a 58-game schedule. - After tonight over half the home league schedule is complete...14 down 13 to go. - Two-thirds of the teams in the league have losing records. - Shy of a couple complete collapses, the races for first in the estW and South are all over but the shoutin’...and the season is not quite half over. Bellingham and Bend have huge leads and with any kind of steady play should take the gold in their respective divisions.

Doubleheaders Oh the AppleSox have played quite a few, but except for reschedules due to rain, twin bills have be- come a thing of the past. - In the days of the Pacific International League from 2000 to ‘05, there 35 doubleheaders, 25 league, 8 nonleague and 2 half-and-half (once in 2000 and again in 2001 one game was league and one non- league). All 35 were originally scheduled as twin features. - Since the advent of the in 2005 there have been 9 doubleheaders, only two of which were originally scheduled, the others all due to inclement weather forcing rescheduled affairs. - The two originally scheduled since 2005 were both a while ago - 2005 at Kitsap and 2006 at Aloha (now Corvallis). - The last scheduled double-bill at home was Bend in July 2004. - The last weather forced event at home was the Tacoma Cardinals in June 2006. - In their 44 doubleheaders the AppleSox are 49-39, 25-23 at home and 24-16 on the road. - They have swept 14 of them, split 21 and dropped both games 9 times. - The last two-contest day was at Medford in June 2013 due to rain.

July 7 Games A home game on the 7th, not so common. Eight of the dozen games on this date have been on the road. The Sox are 1-2 vs. Bend, a win at home in ‘09 and doubleheader loss in Oregon in ‘12. They are 7-5 overall, 6-5 league, 1-0 nonleague, 3-1 at home and 4-4 away.

Who’s Hot: Bend has won 16 of 18. Bellingham has won 6 straight and 7 of 8. has won 7 of 9. Who’s Not: Victoria has lost 7 of 9. Kitsap has lost 7 of 8. Klamath Falls has lost 7 of 8. Cowlitz has lost 6 of 7.

Standings East: Kelowna 17-8, Yakima Valley 17-11, Walla Walla 13-15, WENATCHEE 11-14 West: Bellingham 19-9, Kitsap 10-15, Cowlitz 10-15, Victoria 9-16 South: Bend 23-5, Medford 12-13, Corvallis 10-15, Klamath Falls 5-20

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