2014 Wenatchee Applesox GAME NOTES Wenatchee at Klamath Falls Tuesday-Thursday (June 17-19) Game Times: 6:35 P.M
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2014 Wenatchee AppleSox GAME NOTES Wenatchee at Klamath Falls Tuesday-Thursday (June 17-19) Game Times: 6:35 p.m. Kiger Stadium (Klamath Falls, Ore.) Wenatchee AppleSox Baseball Club, 610 N. Mission St. #204, Wenatchee, WA 98801 [email protected] June ROAD TRIP CONTINUES AT KLAMATH FALLS 4 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (5-0) The Wenatchee AppleSox (8-4, 5-4) face the Klamath Falls Gems (2-7) in a three game 5 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (16-4) series from Tuesday June 17th to Thursday June 19th ...The three game series is the 6 at Yakima L (3-4) 7 at Yakima W (7-1) AppleSox third league series on the season....The AppleSox are entering their 15th 8 at Yakima W (3-2) season (10th in the WCL) and are 471-253(.651) under skipper Ed Knaggs, who is in his 9 KITSAP L (4-14) 14th season as head coach of the AppleSox club...The AppleSox have achieved a winning 10 KITSAP W (5-4) 11 KITSAP W (13-12) (11) record in all 14 seasons during Knaggs’ tenure...Knaggs is assisted by AJ Proszek and 12 NORTHWEST HONKERS W (18-7) Jason Krohn. 14 at Medford L (4-8) 15 at Medford W (3-2) 16 at Medford L (2-7) COVERAGE OF THE APPLESOX 17 at Klamath Falls The three game series with the Gems will have live stats for all games provided by 18 at Klamath Falls pointstreak.com...all games will have live radio coverage on KCSY Sunny 93.9 FM in 19 at Klamath Falls 20 WALLA WALLA Wenatchee and on various translators throughout North Central Washington (Lake 21 WALLA WALLA Chelan Valley 95.3 FM, Okanogan Valley 101.9 FM, Methow Valley [Twisp-Winthrop] 22 WALLA WALLA 106.3 FM)...audio is also available at applesox.com/listen-live...AppleSox play by play 23 CORVALLIS 24 CORVALLIS broadcaster Trevor Williams will call the action...Pregame shows for all three games 25 CORVALLIS start at 6:15 pm...KWCC-TV (LocalTel cable channel 12 or Charter cable channel 19) will 27 at Corvallis televise games, allowing fans to hear the Sunny FM radio broadcast and simultaneously 28 at Corvallis 29 at Corvallis watch the animated playbook provided by pointstreak...AppleSox Baseball provides 30 BELLINGHAM updates on Twitter on @AppleSox and via Instagram by searching: AppleSox. JULY 1 BELLINGHAM 2 BELLINGHAM* (Fireworks Night) PITCHING PROBABLES 4 at Kelowna Tuesday 5 at Kelowna Wenatchee - RH Ty Jackson (1 G, 1 GS, 0-1, 6.75 ERA, 4.0 IP, 6 H, 2 BB, 4 K) 6 at Kelowna 8 EVERETT MERCHANTS Medford- RH TBD () 9 NORTHWEST STAR ACADEMY 10 WALLA WALLA Wednesday 11 WALLA WALLA 12 WALLA WALLA Wenatchee - RH Brandon Bailey (1 G, 1 GS, 0-0, 0.00 ERA, 3.2 IP, 3 H, 2 BB, 5 K) 14 at Walla Walla Medford- RH TBD () 15 at Walla Walla 16 at Walla Walla 17 at Yakima Thursday 18 at Yakima Wenatchee - RH Griffin Canning (1 G, 0 GS, 0-0, 0.00 ERA, 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 BB, 1 K) 19 at Yakima Medford- RH TBD () 21 ALL STAR GAME (Klamath Falls) 22 KELOWNA 23 KELOWNA 24 KELOWNA 25 at Bend 26 at Bend WALK OFF WARRIORS 27 at Bend Wednesday, for the second consecutive time, the Wenatchee AppleSox were walk off 29 VICTORIA winners at Paul Thomas Sr. Field. The first time they’ve accomplished that feat. 30 VICTORIA 31 VICTORIA AUGUST 12 RUNS; NOT ENOUGH 1 COWLITZ For the first time in AppleSox history, 12 runs wasn’t enough to earn a win for the oppo- 2 COWLITZ 3 COWLITZ sition. The 12 runs scored by Kitsap in Wednesday’s contest are the most scored against 5 at Kelowna the Sox by an opponent in a loss. The AppleSox gave up 11 runs and won three times 6 at Kelowna previously in franchise hsitory. 7 at Kelowna 8 YAKIMA 9 YAKIMA TOO CLOSE TO CALL 10 YAKIMA Of the AppleSox first eight games in 2014, four have been decided by one run. Two were DIVISIONAL 12-14 -- CHAMP. 16,18-19 won on the final at bat of the game, both going to the Sox. 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES Wenatchee at Klamath Falls Kiger Stadium Page 2 ABOUT THE KLAMATH FALLS GEMS WENATCHEE’S RECORD... The Klamath Falls Gems joined the WCL in 2011 and finished 25-29 in 2013. In 2012 the 2014 team was 26-28 and in 2011 the Gems were 19-35. They have yet to record a winning Overall 8-4 record over an entire season. They start 2014 2-7 after being swept by Kitsap and losing League 5-4 Non-league 3-0 two series 1-2 with the Bellingham Bells and Yakima Valley Pippins. Division 2-1 Home games 5-1 Away games 3-3 SERIES WITH THE GEMS Day games 1-1 The AppleSox hold a 15-3 all-time series lead over the Gems. In 2013, the AppleSox were Night games 7-3 4-2 against Klamath Falls. In 2012, the Sox posted a perfect 6-0 record against their southern Oregon opponent. During the teams inaugural season, the AppleSox defeated Series 4-1 them in 5 of 6 meetings. The lone loss coming in the final meeting between the two in Home Series 3-0 Away Series 1-1 the year in extra frames, the only extra inning game between the Sox and Gems. First game of series 2-3 Rubber game of series 2-1 Last game of series 4-1 ABOVE .500 Series sweeps 2-0 The AppleSox have a better than .500 record against 8 of their 11 WCL Opponents. Cor- vallis (30-30) has an even .500 record with Wenatchee. The only two teams with an above Doubleheader 0-0 Extra innings 1-0 .500 record against the Sox are the Bend Elks (25-24 vs. WEN) and Medford Rogues (5-4 Shutouts 1-0 vs. WEN). June games 8-4 July games 0-0 QUICK TO DEFROST August games 0-0 In his first two nights with the AppleSox club, Tyler Frost left an impact. He was the win- Sunday games 2-0 ning pitcher on Tuesday as Wenatchee came back in the bottom of the ninth to defeat Monday games 0-2 the Kitsap BlueJackets; just hours after Frost arrived in town. Thursday, he saw his Tuesday games 1-0 Wednesday games 2-0 first action at the plate when he was called upon as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the Thursday games 2-0 eleventh inning of the Sox second straight come from behind win. He singled home the Friday games 0-1 Saturday games 1-1 tying run in the ballgame with a hard groundball up the middle. He was pinch hitting for Simon Rosenbaum, who had a solo home run earlier in the game. AppleSox score first 5-1 Opponent scores first 3-3 LONG GAMES: GOOD TIMES 1-run games 4-1 Four of the first five AppleSox games played at Paul Thomas Sr. Field in 2014 have -re 2-run games 0-0 Sox scored 3 runs or less 2-2 sulted in wins. The average time of a ballgame at Paul Thomas this season? 3 Hours and Sox scored 4 runs or more 6-2 12 Minutes (The all-time average for AppleSox baseball is just a touch over two and a half hours). Following Wednesday’s 3 hour and 19 minute marathon, the AppleSox have Leading after 6 innings 6-0 Tied after 6 innings 1-0 strung together four consecutive home games totaling 3+ hours a piece. This marks the Trailing after 6 innings 1-4 first time in team history that four consecutive home games have exceeded 3 hours. Leading after 7 innings 7-0 Tied after 7 innings 0-0 Trailing after 7 innings 0-4 THE ROAD TO OMAHA Leading after 8 innings 7-0 Out of the 40 players on Wenatchee’s preseason roster, 5 entered the NCAA Division Tied after 8 innings 0-0 Trailing after 8 innings 1-4 I Baseball Tournament with dreams of claiming a National Championship Trophy in Omaha, Neb. Drew Rasmussen and Nate Esposito of Oregon State, along with Shaun Sox outhit opponent 5-1 Vetrovec, John Brontsema and AJ Alcantara of UC Irvine qualified for the NCAA Tourna- Opponent outhits Sox 2-3 ment. UC Irvine defeated Oregon State 4-2 in the final game of the Corvallis Regional. Hits are equal 1-0 Sox hit a HR 3-0 They went on to face Oklahoma State and eventually sweep the Cowboys in Super Sox hit 2 or more HRs 1-0 Regional play (best of three series). Sox have a SB 7-2 Sox have 2 or more SBs 1-0 “SENIOR” CITIZENS Sox starter with 6+ IP 3-0 Ian Buckles, Clark McKitrick, Tom Zarosinski, Nate Esposito, and Mike Livingston are Sox starter with 7+ IP 0-0 Sox starter with 8+ IP 0-0 amongst the oldest on the AppleSox roster. These 5 players will be entering their senior Sox are errorless 2-0 seasons of college baseball in 2015. Half of the AppleSox preseason listed players (20) just completed their freshman year of classes. Come-from-behind Wins 4 Last At Bats Wins 2 YOUNG BUCKS Nine of the AppleSox 40 listed preseason players are entering the WCL straight out of high school. Following the season, they will go on to make their collegiate debuts at Oregon State, UCLA, Gonzaga, the University of San Diego, Nevada and UC Irvine.