2014 Wenatchee AppleSox GAME NOTES Kelowna at Wenatchee Tuesday-Thursday (July 22-24) 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 -- (16-9, 13-9) KELOWNA MAKES ONLY STOP IN WENATCHEE IN 2014 4 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (5-0) The Wenatchee AppleSox (23-18, 19-17) host the Kelowna Falcons (12-24) in a three 5 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (16-4) game series at Paul Thomas Sr. Field, Tuesday-Thursday...The AppleSox are entering 6 at Yakima L (3-4) 7 at Yakima W (7-1) their 15th season (10th in the WCL) and are 485-267 (.646) under skipper Ed Knaggs, 8 at Yakima W (3-2) who is in his 14th season as head coach of the AppleSox club...The AppleSox have 9 KITSAP L (4-14) achieved a winning record in all 14 seasons during Knaggs’ tenure...Knaggs is assisted by 10 KITSAP W (5-4) 11 KITSAP W (13-12) (11) 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 Falcons will have live stats for all games provided by pointstreak. 17 at Klamath Falls L (8-10) com...The tragic fires in the Methow Valley have cut off power to much of that region. 18 at Klamath Falls W (2-1) As a result, our flagship radio station KCSY (Sunny) FM is currently off the air. We hope 19 at Klamath Falls W (17-4) 20 WALLA WALLA L (5-15) for the continued safety of the residents in that area...While the radio station works 21 WALLA WALLA W (5-1) to restore their power, AppleSox fans have a variety of options for listening to the live 22 WALLA WALLA W (7-3) game broadcasts...All games are streamed online. Directions to connect online are at 23 CORVALLIS W (5-4) 24 CORVALLIS W (3-0) www.applesox.com/listen-live...In Chelan and Douglas Counties, cable television sub- 25 CORVALLIS L (5-6) scribers can hear the games live on KWCC TV. Charter subscribers will find the games on 27 at Corvallis W (5-2) channel 19. LocalTel subscribers can tune to channel 12...In the Wenatchee Valley, the 28 at Corvallis L (1-2) 29 at Corvallis W (5-4) games can be heard on the FM dial at 87.7...Pregame Shows throughout the series start 30 BELLINGHAM L (1-8) at 6:45 p.m...Updates on the status of our radio broadcasts will be posted on the Apple- JULY Sox Facebook and Twitter pages. Fans are also encouraged to follow @AppleSox_Radio 1 BELLINGHAM L (2-6) 2 BELLINGHAM* L (6-7) for updates on twitter. Fans can also call the AppleSox office at 665 6900. 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) Thursday 14 at Walla Walla W (6-3) Wenatchee - Drew Rasmussen RHP (6G, 5GS, 3-1, 4.24 ERA, 29.2 IP, 30 K, 13 BB, 29 H) 15 at Walla Walla L (7-8) Kelowna - Jeremy Newton RHP (7G, 6GS, 1-4, 5.70 ERA, 30 IP, 17 K, 7 BB, 39 H) 16 at Walla Walla L (9-10) (14) 17 at Yakima W (11-1) 18 at Yakima W (7-4) (11) Friday 19 at Yakima W (4-2) Wenatchee - Tyler Frost RHP (5G, 3GS, 1-2, 4.50 ERA, 20 IP, 19 K, 6 BB, 20 H) 21 ALL STAR GAME -- Rained Out -- 22 KELOWNA Kelowna - Sam Murphy RHP (8G, 3GS, 1-1, 3.27 ERA, 22 IP, 23 K, 8 BB, 25 H) 23 KELOWNA 24 KELOWNA Saturday 25 at Bend 26 at Bend Wenatchee - Brandon Bailey RHP (6G, 6GS, 1-2, 2.31 ERA, 23.1 IP, 27 K, 5 BB, 25 H) 27 at Bend Kelowna - Joshua Nuerenberg RHP (8G, 4GS, 2-2, 3.47 ERA, 33.2 IP, 30 K, 15 BB, 23 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 Kelowna at Wenatchee Paul Thomas Sr. Field Page 2 ABOUT THE KELOWNA FALCONS WENATCHEE’S RECORD... The Kelowna Falcons Baseball Club is one of two Canadian representatives in the West 2014 Coast League. In 2000 the Kelowna Grizzlies were purchased by the Nonis Family who Overall 23-18 changed the name to Falcons. Some of the notable former Falcons are Nyjer Morgan League 19-17 Non-league 4-1 (2000-Cleveland Indians), Chris Davis (2005-Baltimore Orioles) and Jess Todd (2005-St. Division 10-8 Louis). Home games 10-10 Away games 13-8 Day games 1-1 SERIES WITH THE FALCONS Night games 22-17 The Kelowna Falcons are 12-24 and are currently last place in the WCL East Division. The Falcons are one of the AppleSox most frequent opponents. The AppleSox record in WCL Series 10-4 play against Kelowna is 54-20. They are 6-0 against the Falcons in the playoffs and 4-1 in Home Series 5-2 Away Series 5-2 extra inning games. Playoff meetings came in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Extra inning games First game of series 7-7 occured in 2008 (loss), 2011, 2012 and 2013. Rubber game of series 6-2 Last game of series 9-5 Series sweeps 3-2 RED HOT FALCONS After dropping 14 of 16 games, Kelowna has won four of their last five. Doubleheader 0-0 Extra innings 2-1 Shutouts 3-0 WENATCHEE VS. KELOWNA June games 16-9 Series started in 2000 July games 7-9 Wenatchee August games 0-0 - leads 73-32 overall, 67-29 in league in games, 6-2 in playoffs and trails 1-0 in a non- Sunday games 5-0 league outing in 2000. Monday games 2-3 - leads 39-14 at home. Tuesday games 2-4 Wednesday games 4-3 - and the Falcons have traded wins tit-for-tat over the past nine contests, with the local Thursday games 4-1 nine winning the last one. Friday games 3-3 Saturday games 3-4 - defeated their Canadian foes nine straight times from July 10 to July 11. Their longest losing streak is four (June 2000 to June 2001). AppleSox score first 15-6 - and Kelowna have combined for 10-plus runs in 11 of their last 13 games. Opponent scores first 8-12 1-run games 7-6 FOE FAMILIAR 2-run games 2-2 Sox scored 3 runs or less 4-6 The AppleSox and Falcons have been “division/leaguemates” since Day 1 way back in Sox scored 4 runs or more 18-12 2000. They are one of only two pair of league members where this is the case...the other is Bend and Corvallis. Wenatchee and Kelowna in the Pacific Coast League – North Divi- Leading after 6 innings 19-2 Tied after 6 innings 2-2 sion four times, International Division once...in the West Coast League – One league no Trailing after 6 innings 2-14 divisions twice, East Division seven times, North Division once. Leading after 7 innings 20-2 Tied after 7 innings 2-1 Trailing after 7 innings 0-15 KYLE IS KING Leading after 8 innings 21-0 More young men named Kyle have played for the local club than any other moniker. Tied after 8 innings 1-2 Trailing after 8 innings 1-16 With Kyle Blankenship and Kyle Vanderkin playing this season there have been a dozen Sox with that first name. The Kyle’s: Corra 2001, Peterson 2002, Ryckebosch 2003, Sox outhit opponent 17-6 Wright 2004, Conley 2006, Foster 2007, Johnson 2009, Hooper 2010, Davis 2012, Dock- Opponent outhits Sox 5-12 ins 2012 and Blankenship and Vanderkin this season. Other popular names are: Ryan 11, Hits are equal 1-0 Sox hit a HR 8-5 Josh and Nick 9, Matt 8, John, Michael, Steve and Tyler 7. Sox hit 2 or more HRs 2-0 Sox have a SB 14-9 APPLESOX ROAD DIVISIONAL SWEEP Sox have 2 or more SBs 4-1 Last week’s road sweep in divisional play from Yakima was the first of its kind for the Sox starter with 6+ IP 9-3 AppleSox since late July of 2012, when Wenatchee swept Kelowna on the road. The Sox starter with 7+ IP 2-1 Sox starter with 8+ IP 0-0 sweep of the Falcons at Elks Stadium included four games (a double-header and two Sox are errorless 4-2 single matchups). Come-from-behind Wins 9 Last At Bat Wins 2 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES Kelowna 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.