2014 Wenatchee AppleSox GAME NOTES Wenatchee at Bend Friday-Sunday (July 25-27) Game Times: 6:35 p.m Fri. & Sat.; 5:05 p.m. Sun. Vince Genna Stadium (Bend, Ore.) Wenatchee AppleSox Baseball Club, 610 N. Mission St. #204, Wenatchee, WA 98801 [email protected] June -- (16-9, 13-9) APPLESOX TRAVEL TO FACE WILD CARD FAVORITE 4 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (5-0) The Wenatchee AppleSox (25-21, 21-20) travel to Central Oregon to take on the Bend 5 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (16-4) Elks (25-16) in a three game series at Vince Genna Stadium...The series marks the teams’ 6 at Yakima L (3-4) 7 at Yakima W (7-1) only meeting of the year...The AppleSox are entering their 15th season (10th in the WCL) 8 at Yakima W (3-2) and are 487-270 (.646) under skipper Ed Knaggs, who is in his 14th season as head coach 9 KITSAP L (4-14) of the AppleSox club...The AppleSox have achieved a winning record in all 14 seasons 10 KITSAP W (5-4) 11 KITSAP W (13-12) (11) during Knaggs’ 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 Elks will have live stats for all games provided by 17 at Klamath Falls L (8-10) pointstreak.com...all games will have live radio coverage on KCSY Sunny 93.9 FM in 18 at Klamath Falls W (2-1) 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 Friday and Satur- 23 CORVALLIS W (5-4) 24 CORVALLIS W (3-0) day’s games start at 6:15 pm...Sunday’s pregame will be at 4:45 p.m...KWCC-TV (Lo- 25 CORVALLIS L (5-6) calTel cable channel 12 or Charter cable channel 19) will televise games, allowing fans 27 at Corvallis W (5-2) to hear the Sunny FM radio broadcast...AppleSox Baseball provides updates on Twitter 28 at Corvallis L (1-2) 29 at Corvallis W (5-4) on @AppleSox, on Facebook (Wenatchee AppleSox) and via Instagram by searching: 30 BELLINGHAM L (1-8) AppleSox. Fans are also encouraged to connect with the AppleSox Broadcast Booth, by JULY following @AppleSox_Radio on twitter. 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) 9 NORTHWEST STAR W (22-0) PITCHING PROBABLES 10 WALLA WALLA L (9-16) 11 WALLA WALLA L (5-7) 12 WALLA WALLA L (10-15) Friday -- Elks Won 7-4 14 at Walla Walla W (6-3) Wenatchee - LP- Ian Buckles (3-3) 15 at Walla Walla L (7-8) Bend - WP- Patrick McGuff (3-2) S- Louis Cohen (6) 16 at Walla Walla L (9-10) (14) 17 at Yakima W (11-1) 18 at Yakima W (7-4) (11) Saturday -- Elks Won 8-7 19 at Yakima W (4-2) Wenatchee - WP- Austin Guzzon (4-1) S- Jesse Pratt (1) 21 ALL STAR GAME -- Rained Out -- 22 KELOWNA L (1-17) Bend - LP- Calvin LeBrun (1-2) 23 KELOWNA W (2-1) 24 KELOWNA W (12-1) Sunday 25 at Bend L (4-7) 26 at Bend L (7-8) Wenatchee - Drew Rasmussen RHP (7G, 6GS, 3-2, 6.16 ERA, 30.2 IP, 31 K, 15 BB, 37 H) 27 at Bend Bend - Kevin Hamann RHP (8G, 3GS, 0-2, 4.62 ERA, 23.1 IP, 12 K, 2 BB, 29 H) 29 VICTORIA 30 VICTORIA 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 Wenatchee at Bend Vince Genna Stadium Page 2 ABOUT THE BEND ELKS WENATCHEE’S RECORD... The Bend Elks are one of the WCL’s initial franchises. The AppleSox modern-day WCL 2014 series with Bend dates back to 2005. The Elks play at Vince Genna Stadium and are in the Overall 25-21 WCL South Division. League 21-20 Non-league 4-1 Division 12-9 SERIES WITH THE ELKS Home games 12-11 Away games 13-10 The Elks currently stand one game out of first place in the WCL South and are leading Day games 1-1 the WCL Wildcard standings by three games over the AppleSox. Coming into 2014, Bend Night games 24-20 was the only WCL club to hold an overall winning record against the AppleSox. They are 27-24 leaders in the series over the AppleSox in WCL play. The clubs have met in the Series 11-5 playoffs once in 2010 and it was the championship series. The series took three games Home Series 6-2 Away Series 5-3 and the AppleSox won the 2010 WCL crown (W-L-W). The teams have met in extra First game of series 7-9 innings three times, with Bend winning two of the three (2008 twice, AppleSox won in Rubber game of series 7-2 Last game of series 10-5 2005). Last season the AppleSox were swept in their only three meetings with Bend (at Series sweeps 3-2 Vince Genna Stadium). Doubleheader 0-0 Extra innings 2-1 APPLESOX OWN WORST WCL FIELDING % Shutouts 3-0 The AppleSox fielding percentage is at .946 coming into Saturday’s game. That is the June games 16-9 worst percentage in the WCL. July games 9-12 August games 0-0 SUNDAY, SUNDAY Sunday games 5-0 The AppleSox have not lost on Sunnday in 2014 WCL play. They have played five times Monday games 2-3 and four of those fuuve occurences have been on the road. The AppleSox have three Tuesday games 2-5 Wednesday games 5-3 Sunday games remaining and Sunday does still prove to be the best day of the week for Thursday games 5-1 Wenatcheee. Friday games 3-4 Saturday games 3-5 MULTI-HR’s A SURE THING? AppleSox score first 17-7 Until yesterday, when the AppleSox hit two or more HR’s in a game, they were unde- Opponent scores first 8-14 feated. That went by the wayside after Tyler Frost and Nick Brooks both popped off solo 1-run games 8-7 jacks on Saturday, but the AppleSox fell 8-7. 2-run games 2-2 Sox scored 3 runs or less 5-7 Sox scored 4 runs or more 19-14 IT TAKES A VILLAGE The Bend Elks have used nine pitchers through their first two games of the series and Leading after 6 innings 20-2 Tied after 6 innings 3-2 there have been zero repeat arms. The AppleSox have countered with just four. That Trailing after 6 innings 2-17 means Bend has utilized the bullpen seven times, while Wenatchee has made the call Leading after 7 innings 22-2 Tied after 7 innings 2-1 just twice. Trailing after 7 innings 0-18 Leading after 8 innings 23-0 TRYING TO WIN THE MONTH Tied after 8 innings 1-2 Trailing after 8 innings 1-19 If the AppleSox lose on Sunday, they will no longer be able to post a winning record in the month of July. Coming into Sunday’s game the team has a 9-12 mark on the month Sox outhit opponent 19-7 with four games left to play (including the Bend series finale). Opponent outhits Sox 5-14 Hits are equal 1-0 Sox hit a HR 9-5 WENATCHEE VS. BEND Sox hit 2 or more HRs 2-1 Started in 2000...and is one close series. Sox have a SB 15-10 Sox have 2 or more SBs 5-1 Wenatchee- trails 36-32 overall, trails 33-28 in league games, leads 2-1 in playoffs and is tied 2-2 nonleague. The Elks are the only league foe with a winning record vs. the Sox starter with 6+ IP 9-4 AppleSox. Sox starter with 7+ IP 3-1 Sox starter with 8+ IP 0-0 - and Bend have played 66 games over 14 years and are only separated by ten runs... Sox are errorless 5-2 Bend 332, Wenatchee 322. Come-from-behind Wins 9 - and Bend have had 23 of 68 games (33 percent) decided by one run. Last At Bat Wins 2 - trailed 11 wins to 10 at Bend toward the end of 2010, and has since lost 11 of 12 in the Oregon town to now trail 22-11. - got swept in three games a year ago...all on the Elks diamond. - will have played nine consecutive games at Bend when this series concludes. Last game in the Apple Capital was June, 2012. 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES Wenatchee at Bend Vince Genna Stadium 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 0-1 24-26 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.