2014 Wenatchee Applesox GAME NOTES Victoria at Wenatchee Tuesday-Thursday (July 29-31) Game Times: 7:05 P.M
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2014 Wenatchee AppleSox GAME NOTES Victoria at Wenatchee Tuesday-Thursday (July 29-31) Game Times: 7:05 p.m. Paul Thomas Sr. Field (Wenatchee, Wash.) Wenatchee AppleSox Baseball Club, 610 N. Mission St. #204, Wenatchee, WA 98801 [email protected] June -- (16-9, 13-9) SIX GAME HOMESTAND OPENS WITH VICTORIA 4 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (5-0) The Wenatchee AppleSox (27-22, 23-21) will face off with the Victoria HarbourCats (20- 5 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (16-4) 24) in the two clubs’ only meeting of the season Tuesday-Thursday at Paul Thomas Sr. 6 at Yakima L (3-4) 7 at Yakima W (7-1) Field..The AppleSox are entering their 15th season (10th in the WCL) and are 489-271 8 at Yakima W (3-2) (.643) under skipper Ed Knaggs, who is in his 14th season as head coach of the AppleSox 9 KITSAP L (4-14) club...The AppleSox have achieved a winning record in all 14 seasons during Knaggs’ 10 KITSAP W (5-4) 11 KITSAP W (13-12) (11) tenure...Knaggs is assisted by AJ Proszek and Jason Krohn. 12 NORTHWEST HONKERS W (18-7) 14 at Medford L (4-8) COVERAGE OF THE APPLESOX 15 at Medford W (3-2) 16 at Medford L (2-7) The three game series with the HarbourCats will have live stats for all games provided 17 at Klamath Falls L (8-10) by pointstreak.com...all games will have live radio coverage on KCSY Sunny 93.9 FM 18 at Klamath Falls W (2-1) in Wenatchee and on various translators throughout North Central Washington (Lake 19 at Klamath Falls W (17-4) 20 WALLA WALLA L (5-15) Chelan Valley 95.3 FM, Okanogan Valley 101.9 FM, Methow Valley [Twisp-Winthrop] 21 WALLA WALLA W (5-1) 106.3 FM)...audio is also available at applesox.com/listen-live...AppleSox play by play 22 WALLA WALLA W (7-3) broadcaster Trevor Williams will call the action...Pregame shows for all three games 23 CORVALLIS W (5-4) 24 CORVALLIS W (3-0) start at 6:45 p.m...KWCC-TV (LocalTel cable channel 12 or Charter cable channel 19) will 25 CORVALLIS L (5-6) televise games, allowing fans to hear the Sunny FM radio broadcast...AppleSox Baseball 27 at Corvallis W (5-2) provides updates on Twitter on @AppleSox, on Facebook (Wenatchee AppleSox) and 28 at Corvallis L (1-2) 29 at Corvallis W (5-4) via Instagram by searching: AppleSox. Fans are also encouraged to connect with the 30 BELLINGHAM L (1-8) AppleSox Broadcast Booth, by following @AppleSox_Radio on twitter. JULY 1 BELLINGHAM L (2-6) 2 BELLINGHAM* L (6-7) 4 at Kelowna W (9-1) 5 at Kelowna L (4-13) 6 at Kelowna W (5-3) 8 EVERETT MERCHANTS L (8-14) PITCHING PROBABLES 9 NORTHWEST STAR W (22-0) 10 WALLA WALLA L (9-16) Tuesday -- AppleSox Won 13-4 11 WALLA WALLA L (5-7) 12 WALLA WALLA L (10-15) Wenatchee - WP- Tyler Frost S- Hunter Wells 14 at Walla Walla W (6-3) Victoria- LP- Mikey Wright 15 at Walla Walla L (7-8) 16 at Walla Walla L (9-10) (14) 17 at Yakima W (11-1) Wednesday -- HarbourCats Won 5-0 18 at Yakima W (7-4) (11) Wenatchee - LP- Colton Loomis 19 at Yakima W (4-2) Victoria- WP- Alex Fagalde 21 ALL STAR GAME -- Rained Out -- 22 KELOWNA L (1-17) 23 KELOWNA W (2-1) Thursday 24 KELOWNA W (12-1) Wenatchee - Ian Buckles RHP (8G, 8GS, 3-3, 3.71 ERA, 46 IP, 25 K, 12 BB, 51 H) 25 at Bend L (4-7) 26 at Bend L (7-8) Victoria- Alex Rogers RHP (7G, 7GS, 2-3, 2.89 ERA, 46.2 IP, 24 K, 9 BB, 38 H) 27 at Bend W (3-2) (14) 29 VICTORIA W (13-4) 30 VICTORIA L (0-5) 31 VICTORIA AUGUST 1 COWLITZ 2 COWLITZ 3 COWLITZ 5 at Kelowna 6 at Kelowna 7 at Kelowna 8 YAKIMA 9 YAKIMA 10 YAKIMA DIVISIONAL 12-14 -- CHAMP. 16,18-19 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES Victoria at Wenatchee Paul Thomas Sr. Field Page 2 ABOUT THE VICTORIA HARBOURCATS WENATCHEE’S RECORD... The HarbourCats joined the WCL in 2013. They are currently chasing Bellingham who is 2014 running away with the WCL West. Victoria is the provincial capital of British Columbia. Overall 27-22 The city is the most heavily populated area on Vancouver Island, boasting of more than League 23-21 Non-league 4-1 365,000 in the Greater Victoria area. Victoria is only accessed via plane or boat, as there Division 12-9 are no bridges directly connecting the island to the Canadian Mainland or Washington Home games 13-12 Away games 14-10 State. Day games 1-1 Night games 26-21 SERIES WITH THE HARBOURCATS The AppleSox met the HarbourCats nine times during their inaugural 2013 season. Series 11-5 Wenatchee won the first four meetings of the year and all six at Paul Thomas Sr. Field. Home Series 6-2 Away Series 5-3 After winning the first home series, Wenatchee took one of three at Royal Athletic Park First game of series 8-9 and suffered a short-lived two-game losing streak to the Cats. Wenatchee would go on Rubber game of series 7-2 Last game of series 11-5 to sweep Victoria in Wenatchee to cap the 2013 meetings. The two teams have never Series sweeps 3-2 met in the playoffs or extra innings. Doubleheader 0-0 Extra innings 3-1 ERRORS, ERRORS AND MORE ERRORS Shutouts 3-1 The AppleSox only have eight errorless games on the season. Joe Gillette had two of the June games 16-9 clubs’ three errors last night. Gillette leads the WCL in errors with 19. Sean Bouchard is July games 11-13 second with 14. August games 0-0 Sunday games 6-0 APPLESOX VS. VICTORIA Monday games 2-3 - Series started last year. Tuesday games 3-5 Wednesday games 5-4 - Wenatchee leads 8-3, winning all seven games at home and going 1-2 on Vancouver Thursday games 5-1 Island last year. Friday games 3-4 Saturday games 3-5 - The AppleSox had a four-game win streak until Victoria won last night. - This season the AppleSox have scored 249 runs, Victoria 239 AppleSox score first 18-7 Opponent scores first 9-15 RARITY 1-run games 9-7 The AppleSox were shut out for the first time in 2014, Wednesday as the HarbourCats 2-run games 2-2 Sox scored 3 runs or less 6-8 won 5-0. Sox scored 4 runs or more 20-14 LOTS OF PITCHES FOR SUMMER BALL Leading after 6 innings 21-2 Tied after 6 innings 3-2 Last night’s final pitch total for Alex Lagalde: 122. That pitch count is 20+ pitches higher Trailing after 6 innings 3-18 than any of the AppleSox highest counts on the season. Buckles worked into the 80’s in Leading after 7 innings 23-2 Tied after 7 innings 2-1 Bend. Formerly, Zarosinski and Rasmussen worked into the 90’s. Trailing after 7 innings 1-19 Leading after 8 innings 24-0 EXTRA OUTS A PROBLEM Tied after 8 innings 1-2 Trailing after 8 innings 2-20 The AppleSox gave Victoria four extra outs last night (basically an extra 1.1 innings of- fensively). That was all while the HarbourCats were errorless and the AppleSox got 0 Sox outhit opponent 21-7 extra outs. On the season Wenatchee has now given opponents a total of five extra outs Opponent outhits Sox 5-15 or almost two innings of baseball. With 16 one-run contests on the year, that number is Hits are equal 1-0 Sox hit a HR 10-5 quite significant when you consider win-loss totals. Sox hit 2 or more HRs 2-1 Sox have a SB 15-10 LIVINGSTON LIKELY DONE FOR YEAR; WOOD ON STAND BY Sox have 2 or more SBs 6-2 Ed Knaggs announced that Mike Livingston, who hasn’t played in four weeks for Sox starter with 6+ IP 10-4 Wenatchee, is likely done for the summer. Caleb Wood is sidelined as he waits for a Sox starter with 7+ IP 3-1 Sox starter with 8+ IP 0-0 potential MRI. To do so, he would have to return to Arizona. With travel a consideration Sox are errorless 6-2 Wood might be done for the summer as well, although he did see action a night ago as a pinch hitter. Come-from-behind Wins 10 Last At Bat Wins 2 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES Victoria at Wenatchee Paul Thomas Sr. Field Page 3 Wenatchee vs... MEET THE SOX 2014 All-time* #1 Joe Gillette - Played football and baseball for the Falcons, however, he shifted his Bellingham Bells 0-3 35-23 Bend Elks 1-2 25-27 focus entirely to baseball before his junior season of high school...Gillette was named to Corvallis Knights 4-2 34-32 the 2013 New Balance All-Area Code Games Team and he competed for the L.A. Dodg- Cowlitz Black Bears 0-0 15-3 Kelowna Falcons 4-2 56-21 ers scout team in 2012 for Team USA’s under-18 squad at Dodger Stadium. Kitsap BlueJackets 2-1 37-17 Klamath Falls Gems 2-1 17-4 Medford Rogues 1-2 4-5 #3 AJ Alcantara - During his RS freshman season, Alcantara ranked first on the UCI team Victoria HarbourCats 1-1 8-3 in batting with a .378 average...This total came in just ahead of formal AppleSox power Walla Walla Sweets 3-6 21-19 Yakima Valley Pippins 5-1 5-1 hitter Connor Spencer...He was an All-CIF selection second team choice as a senior in high school.