2014 Wenatchee AppleSox GAME NOTES NW Star Knights at Wenatchee Wednesday (July 9) Game Time: 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) QUICK MEETING WITH MERCHANTS SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY 4 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (5-0) The Wenatchee AppleSox (18-12, 15-12) wrap up non league play on Wednesday night 5 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (16-4) against the NW Star College Prep Knights (N/A)...The AppleSox are entering their 15th 6 at Yakima L (3-4) 7 at Yakima W (7-1) season (10th in the WCL) and are 479-262 (.645) under skipper Ed Knaggs, who is in his 8 at Yakima W (3-2) 14th season as head coach of the AppleSox club...The AppleSox have achieved a winning 9 KITSAP L (4-14) record in all 14 seasons during Knaggs’ tenure...Knaggs is assisted by AJ Proszek and 10 KITSAP W (5-4) 11 KITSAP W (13-12) (11) 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 matchup with the Knights will have live stats for all games provided by pointstreak. 17 at Klamath Falls L (8-10) com...all games will have live radio coverage on KCSY Sunny 93.9 FM in Wenatchee and 18 at Klamath Falls W (2-1) on various translators throughout North Central Washington (Lake Chelan Valley 95.3 19 at Klamath Falls W (17-4) 20 WALLA WALLA L (5-15) FM, Okanogan Valley 101.9 FM, Methow Valley [Twisp-Winthrop] 106.3 FM)...audio is 21 WALLA WALLA W (5-1) also available at applesox.com/listen-live...AppleSox play by play broadcaster Trevor 22 WALLA WALLA W (7-3) Williams will call the action...The pregame show for Tuesday’s game starts at 6:45 pm... 23 CORVALLIS W (5-4) 24 CORVALLIS W (3-0) KWCC-TV (LocalTel cable channel 12 or Charter cable channel 19) will televise games, 25 CORVALLIS L (5-6) allowing fans to hear the Sunny FM radio broadcast and simultaneously watch the ani- 27 at Corvallis W (5-2) mated playbook provided by pointstreak...AppleSox Baseball provides updates on Twit- 28 at Corvallis L (1-2) 29 at Corvallis W (5-4) ter on @AppleSox, on Facebook (Wenatchee AppleSox) and via Instagram by searching: 30 BELLINGHAM L (1-8) AppleSox. JULY 1 BELLINGHAM L (2-6) 2 BELLINGHAM* L (6-7) 4 at Kelowna W (9-1) PITCHING PROBABLES 5 at Kelowna L (4-13) 6 at Kelowna W (5-3) 8 EVERETT MERCHANTS L (8-14) Wednesday 9 NORTHWEST STAR ACADEMY Wenatchee - TBD 10 WALLA WALLA NW Star - TBD 11 WALLA WALLA 12 WALLA WALLA 14 at Walla Walla 15 at Walla Walla 16 at Walla Walla 17 at Yakima 18 at Yakima PAUL THOMAS SR. FIELD EVENTS 19 at Yakima Wednesday 21 ALL STAR GAME (Klamath Falls) 22 KELOWNA Chelan PUD Hand Held Electronic Fan Giveaway 23 KELOWNA 24 KELOWNA Join your local Chelan County PUD as they hand out personal electronic fans to the spec- 25 at Bend 26 at Bend tators in attendance at Paul Thomas Sr. Field, Wednesday. 27 at Bend 29 VICTORIA 30 VICTORIA 31 VICTORIA AUGUST 1 COWLITZ 2 COWLITZ 3 COWLITZ FINAL NON-LEAGUE MATCHUPS OF 2014 5 at Kelowna The AppleSox face their final two non-league opponents on Tuesday and Wednesday. So 6 at Kelowna far, Wenatchee is 4-1 in non-league play and have outscored their opponents 47-25. This 7 at Kelowna 8 YAKIMA is the first meeting of the season between NW Star and a WCL opponent. 9 YAKIMA 10 YAKIMA DIVISIONAL 12-14 -- CHAMP. 16,18-19 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES NW Star at Wenatchee Paul Thomas Sr. Field Page 2 ABOUT THE NW STAR COLLEGE PREP KNIGHTS WENATCHEE’S RECORD... The NW philosophy is committed to creating an avenue for youth to participate in com- 2014 petitive, fun and positive learning environment through the sport of Baseball. Research Overall 18-13 tells us that “At their best, sports programs promote responsible social behaviors and League 15-12 Non-league 3-1 greater academic success, confidence in one’s physical abilities, and an appreciation Division 6-3 of personal health and fitness.” NW Star Academy is headquartered in West Linn, OR, Home games 9-7 Away games 9-6 south of Portland and right next to Lake Oswego. Day games 1-1 Night games 17-12 SERIES WITH THE KNIGHTS The AppleSox have played NW Star Colege prep seven times before. With three meet- Series 9-2 ings in both ‘06 and ‘07 and one time in ‘08. The Sox lost the first two and won the next Home Series 5-1 Away Series 4-1 five meetings. The Academy team is the second most frequent nonleague opponent for First game of series 5-6 the AppleSox. Rubber game of series 6-1 Last game of series 8-3 Series sweeps 2-1 OFTEN ONE, BUT NOT TWO The AppleSox series finale against Kelowna was decided by just two runs; the second Doubleheader 0-0 Extra innings 1-0 time that scoring margin has occured this season ([L 8-10] to Klamath Falls). All of this Shutouts 2-0 while the AppleSox have played 11 one-run games (7-4). June games 16-9 July games 2-4 APPLESOX NON LEAGUE RECORD August games 0-0 The AppleSox record in nonleague games is 103-39 and at home 89-32. They have won Sunday games 5-0 24 of the last 27. This will be the 69th consecutive nonleague contest at Paul Thomas Sr. Monday games 1-3 Baseball Stadium. The last time the Sox ventured far-a-field for one of these type games Tuesday games 2-3 Wednesday games 3-2 was three weeks shy of 10 years ago when they took on the Whitman County Diamond- Thursday games 3-0 backs in Colfax August 4, 2004. Friday games 2-2 Saturday games 2-3 LONG GAMES AppleSox score first 11-4 This may very well be the 2014 AppleSox theme. Last night was the seventh of the last Opponent scores first 7-9 15 home games to exceed three hours (3:08)...a near record breaking pace. In 2007 1-run games 7-4 there were nine of these “more-bang-for-your-buck” type games in a 15-game stretch. 2-run games 1-1 Sox scored 3 runs or less 4-5 Sox scored 4 runs or more 15-7 HOME NOT SO SWEET The AppleSox tied a team record last night, and not one to write home about. They Leading after 6 innings 15-0 Tied after 6 innings 1-1 have been on the short end of the score five consecutive times playing before their Trailing after 6 innings 2-12 home fans. This ties with two others for longest home losing streak. It happened once Leading after 7 innings 17-0 Tied after 7 innings 0-0 in their initial season of 2000 and again in 2003. Trailing after 7 innings 0-13 Leading after 8 innings 17-0 BIGELOW MAKES BIG SPLASH Tied after 8 innings 0-1 Trailing after 8 innings 1-12 This week’s WCL Player of the Week award goes to David Bigelow, who was a former AppleSox pitcher in 2011. Sox outhit opponent 13-4 Opponent outhits Sox 4-9 Here are Bigelow’s 2011 Pitching Stats: Hits are equal 1-0 Sox hit a HR 6-1 Sox hit 2 or more HRs 1-0 13 games Sox have a SB 12-7 23.1 innings Sox have 2 or more SBs 2-0 2-2 record Sox starter with 6+ IP 7-1 2.70 ERA Sox starter with 7+ IP 2-1 Sox starter with 8+ IP 0-0 13 strike outs Sox are errorless 4-1 5 walks Come-from-behind Wins 8 Last At Bat Wins 2 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES NW Star 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 0-0 24-25 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 2-1 54-20 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 0-0 7-2 in batting with a .378 average...This total came in just ahead of formal AppleSox power Walla Walla Sweets 2-1 20-14 Yakima Valley Pippins 2-1 2-1 hitter Connor Spencer...He was an All-CIF selection second team choice as a senior in high school. *All-Time denotes WCL games since 2005 DIVISION STANDINGS W-L GB #4 Caleb Wood - All-WCC first team selection in 2014...second on the Gonzaga team EAST batting .300...was a perfect 11 for 11 in steal attempts as a freshman in 2013...was named Yakima Valley Pippins 16-10 - to the All-WCC Freshman team in 2013 and played in 46 games for the Zags that year..