2014 Wenatchee AppleSox GAME NOTES Wenatchee at Walla Walla Monday-Wednesday (July 14-16) Game Times: 7:05 p.m. Borleske Stadium (Walla Walla, Wash.) Wenatchee AppleSox Baseball Club, 610 N. Mission St. #204, Wenatchee, WA 98801 [email protected] June -- (16-9, 13-9) SWEETS AND APPLESOX TRADE SERIES WINS; THIRD SERIES, MONDAY 4 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (5-0) The Wenatchee AppleSox (20-16, 16-15) head to Walla Walla for the first time in 2014 to 5 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (16-4) face off with the Walla Walla Sweets (15-16) in a three game WCL East Divisional set at 6 at Yakima L (3-4) 7 at Yakima W (7-1) Borleske Stadium, to start the week...The AppleSox are entering their 15th season (10th 8 at Yakima W (3-2) in the WCL) and are 483-265 (.646) under skipper Ed Knaggs, who is in his 14th season as 9 KITSAP L (4-14) head coach of the AppleSox club...The AppleSox have achieved a winning record in all 14 10 KITSAP W (5-4) 11 KITSAP W (13-12) (11) seasons 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 matchup with the Sweets 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 all three games 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) Monday -- 6-3 AppleSox Win 9 NORTHWEST STAR W (22-0) Wenatchee - WP- Nathan Hadley (3-0) 10 WALLA WALLA L (9-16) Walla Walla - LP- Omar Porras (0-2) 11 WALLA WALLA L (5-7) 12 WALLA WALLA L (10-15) 14 at Walla Walla W (6-3) Tuesday 15 at Walla Walla Wenatchee - Drew Rasmussen RHP (5G, 4 GS, 3-1, 4.56 ERA, 23.2 IP, 23 K, 12 BB, 23 H) 16 at Walla Walla 17 at Yakima Walla Walla - Spencer Hobson LHP (5G, 4 GS, 1-0, 3.00 ERA, 24 IP, 10 K, 9 BB, 23 H) 18 at Yakima 19 at Yakima Wednesday 21 ALL STAR GAME (Klamath Falls) 22 KELOWNA Wenatchee - Tyler Frost RHP (4G, 2GS, 1-2, 3.37 ERA, 16 IP, 12 K, 3 BB, 15 H) 23 KELOWNA Walla Walla - Cody Carroll RHP (5G, 4GS, 1-1, 5.94 ERA, 19.2 IP, 10 K, 8 BB, 21 H) 24 KELOWNA 25 at Bend 26 at Bend 27 at Bend 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 Walla Walla Borleske Stadium Page 2 ABOUT THE WALLA WALLA SWEETS WENATCHEE’S RECORD... The Walla Walla Sweets are a collegiate wood-bat baseball team that from the West 2014 Coast League. Named after the famous Walla Walla sweet onions, the team displays the Overall 20-16 deep agricultural roots in the Walla Walla Valley. League 16-15 Non-league 4-1 Division 7-6 SERIES WITH THE SWEETS Home games 10-10 Away games 10-6 The Walla Walla Sweets are 15-16 and are in third place in the WCL East Division. They Day games 1-1 are coming off of a sweep against the AppleSox and lead the series on the season 4-3. Night games 19-15 Walla Walla was in the Championship series a year ago against the Corvallis Knights, but did not win the series. The Sweets and the AppleSox have met in the playoffs four times Series 9-3 and split the series 2-2 (2011 and 2013). Both playoff series were sweeps. The AppleSox Home Series 5-2 Away Series 4-1 have also played four extra inning games against Walla Walla and are 2-2 in those con- First game of series 6-7 tests (2011 twice, 2012, 2013). Rubber game of series 6-1 Last game of series 8-4 Series sweeps 2-2 ERROR FREE SOX Three of the AppleSox last five games have been of the error free variety. The AppleSox Doubleheader 0-0 Extra innings 1-0 are 2-1 in those three error free games. They have totaled 6 error free games in 2014 and Shutouts 3-0 are now 4-2 in those games. June games 16-9 July games 4-7 POWER SURGE August games 0-0 The AppleSox have home runs in back-to-back games for one of the only times in league Sunday games 5-0 play this season. Ty Jackson and Nate Esposito were the last two to go deep for the Monday games 2-3 AppleSox. Tuesday games 2-3 Wednesday games 4-2 Thursday games 3-1 ALL STAR TEAMS ANNOUNCED Friday games 2-3 Saturday games 2-4 The 2014 WCL All Star Teams were announced on Tuesday. Michael McCann, Ty Jackson, Caleb Wood, and Ian Buckles were selected from the AppleSox. AppleSox score first 13-5 Opponent scores first 7-11 WW All Stars: Jarod Gonzales, Sean Bouchard, Andrew Mendenhall 1-run games 7-4 2-run games 1-2 Sox scored 3 runs or less 4-6 The most represented colleges on this year’s All-Star Game rosters are Gonzaga with 3, Sox scored 4 runs or more 16-10 and Arizona State, Creighton, Lewis-Clark State College, Linfield College, Oregon and Portland with two each. (GU’s players: 2B Wood, WEN; P David Bigelow (Bellingham), P Leading after 6 innings 16-1 Tied after 6 innings 2-2 Eli Morgan [incoming] (Yakima)) Trailing after 6 innings 2-13 Leading after 7 innings 18-1 Tied after 7 innings 1-1 WCL TEAMS ALL STAR BREAKDOWN Trailing after 7 innings 0-14 N: Bellingham (6), Yakima (5), Wenatchee (4), Walla Walla (3), Victoria (3), Kelowna (1) Leading after 8 innings 19-0 S: Medford (5), Corvallis (5), Cowlitz (4), Bend (3), Klamath Falls (2), Kitsap (2). Tied after 8 innings 0-1 Trailing after 8 innings 1-15 STRIKEOUTS Sox outhit opponent 15-5 It took the Sweets all the way until the ninth inning to record a strikeout against the Opponent outhits Sox 4-11 AppleSox last night. Another big strikeout number was acheived last week when Griffin Hits are equal 1-0 Sox hit a HR 7-3 Canning struck out ten batters over his six innings of work. That is the second time in as Sox hit 2 or more HRs 2-0 many tries that the AppleSox have had a starter record ten strikeouts off of the Walla Sox have a SB 14-8 Walla Sweets (Trevor Lubking, July 31, 2013). Sox have 2 or more SBs 2-1 Sox starter with 6+ IP 8-2 ROAD WARRIORS Sox starter with 7+ IP 2-1 Sox starter with 8+ IP 0-0 The AppleSox are 5-2 in Divisional games on the road and 2-4 in Divisional games at Sox are errorless 4-2 home. They have won game one in each of their three Divisional road series. They have yet to win a game one in Divisional play at home. Come-from-behind Wins 8 Last At Bat Wins 2 BUSY JULY 15th July 15th is the only day on the AppleSox franchise calendar that has contained a game in EVERY season of the team’s existence. 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES Wenatchee at Walla Borleske 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 0-0 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 3-4 21-17 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.