2014 Baseball Game Notes -- SF Seals 6-4And6-5
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2014 Wenatchee AppleSox GAME NOTES San Francisco at Wenatchee WednesdayThursday (June 45) 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 APPLESOX OPEN WITH SEALS 4 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS The Wenatchee AppleSox (00, 00 WCL East) host San Francisco in a twogame non 5 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS league series, June 4th and 5th at Paul Thomas Sr. Field...game times are 7:05 p.m. 6 at Yakima 7 at Yakima Thursday and Friday...The AppleSox are entering their 15th season (10th in the WCL) and 8 at Yakima are 463249 (.650) under skipper Ed Knaggs, who is in his 14th season as head coach of 9 KITSAP the AppleSox club...The AppleSox have achieved a winning record in all 14 seasons dur 10 KITSAP 11 KITSAP ing Knaggs’ tenure...Knaggs is assisted by AJ Proszek and Jason Krohn. 12 NORTHWEST HONKERS 14 at Medford COVERAGE OF THE APPLESOX 15 at Medford 16 at Medford The twogame series with San Francisco will have live stats for both games provided 17 at Klamath Falls by pointstreak.com...all games will have live radio coverage on KCSY Sunny 93.9 FM 18 at Klamath Falls in Wenatchee and on various translators throughout North Central Washington (Lake 19 at Klamath Falls 20 WALLA WALLA Chelan Valley 95.3 FM, Okanogan Valley 101.9 FM, Methow Valley [TwispWinthrop] 21 WALLA WALLA 106.3 FM)...audio is also available at kcsyfm.com...AppleSox play by play broadcaster 22 WALLA WALLA Trevor Williams will call the action...pregame shows for both games will start at 6:45 23 CORVALLIS 24 CORVALLIS p.m...KWCCTV (LocalTel cable channel 12 or Charter cable channel 19) will televise 25 CORVALLIS games, allowing fans to hear the Sunny FM radio broadcast and simultaneously watch 27 at Corvallis the animated playbook provided by pointstreak...AppleSox Baseball provides updates 28 at Corvallis 29 at Corvallis on Twitter on @AppleSox. 30 BELLINGHAM JULY PAUL THOMAS SR. FIELD EVENTS 1 BELLINGHAM 2 BELLINGHAM* (Fireworks Night) Wednesday 4 at Kelowna *Farmers Presents Opening Night 5 at Kelowna *Gates open at 6 p.m. 6 at Kelowna 8 EVERETT MERCHANTS *Chances for fans to win great prizes from AppleSox Opening Night Sponsor, Farmers 9 NORTHWEST STAR ACADEMY Insurance 10 WALLA WALLA 11 WALLA WALLA 12 WALLA WALLA Thursday 14 at Walla Walla *Wenatchee Valley College Night 15 at Walla Walla *Gates open at 6 p.m. 16 at Walla Walla 17 at Yakima 18 at Yakima 19 at Yakima PITCHING PROBABLES 21 ALL STAR GAME (Klamath Falls) 22 KELOWNA Wednesday 23 KELOWNA San Francisco RH TBA (0 G, 0 GS, 00, 0.00 ERA, 0 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 0 K) 24 KELOWNA Wenatchee RH TBA (0 G, 0 GS, 00, 0.00 ERA, 0 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 0 K) 25 at Bend 26 at Bend 27 at Bend Thursday 29 VICTORIA San Francisco RH TBA (0 G, 0 GS, 00, 0.00 ERA, 0 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 0 K) 30 VICTORIA 31 VICTORIA Wenatchee RH TBA (0 G, 0 GS, 00, 0.00 ERA, 0 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 0 K) AUGUST 1 COWLITZ 2 COWLITZ 3 COWLITZ YOUNG BUCKS 5 at Kelowna Nine of the AppleSox 40 listed preseason players are entering the WCL straight out of 6 at Kelowna high school. Following the season, they will go on to make their collegiate debuts at 7 at Kelowna 8 YAKIMA Oregon State, UCLA, Gonzaga, the University of San Diego, Nevada and UC Irvine. 9 YAKIMA 10 YAKIMA DIVISIONAL 1214 CHAMP. 16,1819 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES San Francisco at Wenatchee Paul Thomas Sr. Field Page 2 ABOUT THE SEALS WENATCHEE’S RECORD... The San Francisco Seals are an 18+ summer league baseball team from the Bay Area. 2014 They were founded in 1987 (included an 18U and 16U team both were dropped in Overall 00 1990). In 1997, after winning the San Diego tournament, the Seals participated in the League 00 Nonleague 00 prestigious National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kansas, the largest ama Division 00 teur sporting event in the country. Home games 00 Away games 00 Day games 00 SAN FRANCISCO SERIES NOTES Night games 00 The AppleSox lead 70...series dates back to June 13, 2000 when the AppleSox swept the seals 64 and 95 in a two game series...since the start of the modern WCL, the AppleSox Series 00 and Seals have met once (2013)...In the last meeting on August 3, 2013, the AppleSox Home Series 00 Away Series 00 defeated the Seals 53 at Paul Thomas Sr. Field. First game of series 00 Rubber game of series 00 Last game of series 00 NONLEAGUE, NO PROBLEM Series sweeps 00 Under Head Coach Ed Knaggs, the AppleSox are 9237 (.713) in nonleague matchups. They have posted a below .500 nonleague record only once in the franchise’s lifetime Doubleheader 00 Extra innings 00 (the Sox compiled an 1112 record in 2003). They have been undefeated in nonleague Shutouts 00 play during Knaggs career twice. Once in 2011 and again in 2012. Overall, the Sox are June games 00 10038 in nonleague matchups (.725). July games 00 August games 00 WHERE IT ALL STARTS Sunday games 00 The AppleSox have played their seasonopener at home 10 times since beginning play in Monday games 00 2000. The Sox are 64 in those contests (most recent: W vs. Corvallis in 2013). The Sox are Tuesday games 00 Wednesday games 00 a perfect 40 when beginning the season on the road. All of those games came against Thursday games 00 league opponents. The AppleSox are 42 when opening the season against a nonleague Friday games 00 Saturday games 00 opponent. (62 vs. league opponents). The Seals and AppleSox have never met in a seasonopener. OPENING NIGHT ROSTER 1run games 00 Coach Knaggs has 6 temporary players who are expected to be available to start the 2run games 00 Sox scored 3 runs or less 00 Sox scored 4 runs or more 00 weeks of the season as players conclude high school/summer classes and their collegiate baseball seasons. Leading after 6 innings 00 Tied after 6 innings 00 Trailing after 6 innings 00 THE ROAD TO OMAHA Leading after 7 innings 00 Tied after 7 innings 00 Out of the 40 players on Wenatchee’s preseason roster, 5 entered the NCAA Division Trailing after 7 innings 00 I Baseball Tournament with dreams of claiming a National Championship Trophy in Leading after 8 innings 00 Omaha, Neb. Drew Rasmussen and Nate Esposito of Oregon State, along with Shaun Tied after 8 innings 00 Trailing after 8 innings 00 Sox outhit opponent 00 They move on to face Oklahoma State in Super Regional play (best of three series). OSU Opponent outhits Sox 00 Hits are equal 00 Sox hit a HR 00 Sox hit 2 or more HRs 00 “SENIOR” CITIZENS Sox have a SB 00 Ian Buckles, Clark McKitrick, Tom Zarosinski, Nate Esposito, and Mike Livingston are Sox have 2 or more SBs 00 amongst the oldest on the AppleSox roster. These 5 players will be entering their senior Sox starter with 6+ IP 00 seasons of college baseball in 2015. Half of the AppleSox preseason listed players (20) Sox starter with 7+ IP 00 Sox starter with 8+ IP 00 just completed their freshman year of classes. Sox are errorless 00 ATTACK OF THE Mc’S Comefrombehind Wins 0 Last At Bats Wins 0 Four of the AppleSox announced preseason players have names beginning with “Mc.” Those atheltes are Chris McDowell, Clark McKitrick, Evan McMahan and Michael Mc Cann 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES San Francisco at Wenatchee Paul Thomas Sr. Field Page 3 Wenatchee vs... MEET THE SOX 2014 Alltime* #2 Tanner Nishioka 2014 Third Team AllWest region from Pomona Pitzer...turned Bellingham Bells 00 3520 Bend Elks 00 2425 Corvallis Knights 00 3030 Football team, where he is a punter, while sometimes seeing spot duty at wide receiver. Cowlitz Black Bears 00 153 Kelowna Falcons 00 5219 Kitsap BlueJackets 00 3516 #3 Adam Grubb Signed to a temporary contract...played in 6 games and started one Klamath Falls Gems 00 153 Medford Rogues 00 33 for Wenatchee Valley College...is from Wenatchee and was a 2013 Wenatchee High Victoria HarbourCats 00 72 School graduate...threw 19.1 Innings, compiled a 10 record, struck out 13 batters and Walla Walla Sweets 00 1813 Yakima Valley Pippins 00 00 *AllTime denotes WCL games since 2005 #4 Caleb Wood DIVISION STANDINGS WL GB batting .300...was a perfect 11 for 11 in steal attempts as a freshman in 2013...was named EAST to the AllWCC Freshman team in 2013 and played in 46 games for the Zags that year..