Walla Walla Sweets [23-23] [25-21] Wenatchee AppleSox at 4th \\ WCL North \\ 3.5 GB \\ [8-11] [10-9] \\ 1.5 GB \\ WCL North \\ T2 PAUL THOMAS SR. STADIUM [1,200] | wenatchee, WASH. | GAME #47 [25-21] | HOME #23 [13-9] SATURday, July 29, 2017 | 7:05 p.m. | Radio: Sunny FM 93.9 (Wenatchee) \ KBSN 1470 AM (Moses Lake) PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS APPLESOX RECORD Day Date Opponnent Time AppleSox Pitcher Opposing Pitcher Overall 25-21 Fri. 7/28 Walla Walla 2:45 LP- Steen Fredrickson (1-3) WP- Dylan Riddle (4-1) League 25-21 Sat. 7/29 Walla Walla 7:05p RH- Alek Jacob (0-0, 0.00) LH- Scott Parker (2-3, 5.44) Division 17-8 Non-league 3-1 Sun. 7/30 Walla Walla 6:05p RH- Mike Townsend (0-2, 13.00) LH- Isaac Esqueda (3-1, 3.25) Home games 13-9 Away games 12-12 APPLESOX FACE LEFT-HANDER, GOING FOR SERIES TIE Day games 0-2 The Wenatchee AppleSox (25-21, 11-9 second half), are looking to keep in the WCL Second-Half race, as they are just 1.5 games Night games 25-19 back of the Victoria HarbourCats and hosting North rival Walla Walla (23-23, 8-11), Saturday night...the AppleSox were swept to vs. RH starter 21-14 vs. LH starter 4-7 open the season at Walla Walla...the AppleSox are playing their 18th franchise season (13th in the WCL) and are led by first-year Extra innings 2-3 head coach, Kyle Krustangel (25-21) (.543), who has completed two years as the head coach at Yakima Valley College during the NCAA regular season...Krustangel is assisted by Yakima’s Cash Ulrich and Riley Drongesen, both in their first seasons. SERIES HISTORY The Sweets lead the all-time APPLESOX CAN’T COMPLETE LATE COMEBACK, FALL 5-4 series, 32-28...Wenatchee leads The AppleSox loaded the bases twice last night in the eight and ninth innings...both times with less that two outs, but went 0-5 with 15-12 at home, and trails 13-20 on runners in scoring position and could only muster two runs in the spots, for a 5-4 game-one loss to the Walla Walla Sweets...the the road...Wenatchee has lost six game ended on a questionable strike three call for Jacob Prater at the dish...Wenatchee’s Evan Johnson hit into a double play in of the last seven in the series...the the 0-out spot in the eighth...Cameron Deere earned the save, and backed up three innings of work from 2016 AppleSox pitcher AppleSox now hold a five-game Dylan Riddle, who improved to 4-1 on the season...AppleSox starter Steen Fredrickson went 5.2 at the start, and was tabbed for all losing streak at Borleske Stadium five runs...Walla Walla starter Darius Vines only made it three innings...Cameron Kurz threw the final 3.1 innings for the AppleSox after being swept there to start and struck out four batters to keep his offense in the game. the year...current six-game losing streak to the Sweets is the longest losing streak in series history. TONIGHT’S NOTES LAST 10 VS. WW (3-7) TOO CLOSE TO CALL NEW KID ON THE LESS THAN SWEET The last three meetings between BLOCK Wenatchee is 17-8 versus the WCL 7/28/17 @WEN L, 4-5 the AppleSox and Walla Walla North, but would be 17-4 if it wasn’t 6/4/17 @WW L, 6-7(12) Alek Jacob makes his AppleSox 6/3/17 @WW L, 4-5 Sweets have been decided by just debut tonight...the Spokane na- for the Walla Walla Sweets...the 6/2/17 @WW L, 0-4 one run, and Walla Walla won each tive has started for North Central Sweets won the season series last 8/4/16 @WW L, 3-7 8/3/16 @WW L, 1-6 of those contests...the AppleSox High School each of the last four night, but the AppleSox can still take have only won three of their last ten the current series...Wenatchee is 8/2/16 @WW W, 6-4 seasons, three times being named 6/16/16 @WEN L, 4-8 games against the Sweets and have First Team All-Greater Spokane 1-6 in its last seven home games 6/15/16 @WEN W, 5-4 lost six-consecutive games, which is League....as a senior, he was against all WCL opponents. 6/14/16 @WEN W, 5-1 the longest such losing streak in the named All-State in the 3A...in 2016 series history for the AppleSox. as a junior, he led the league in SOX STREAKS strikeouts and earned Second Current Streak L1 SOMETHING ABOUT Team All-State honors...over the Homestand/Trip 0-1 SOUTHPAWS last two summers, he played for the Last 15 Games 7-8 Spokane Expos, tossing a four- Last 10 Games 4-6 Wenatchee has got to get it figured Last 5 Games 3-2 out against left-handed pitchers... hit shutout against the Spokane Last 5 Games/Home 1-4 Wenatchee is 4-7 versus southpaws Dodgers in 2016 and was named Last 5 Games/Away 3-2 Last 5 Games/Division 3-2 this year and will face two Walla All-State in 2017. Walla left handers to finish off this LOOKING AHEAD important three-game series. AppleSox vs Corvallis Aug. 1 / Aug. 2 / Aug. 3 7:05p / 7:05p / 7:05p Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium Wenatchee, Wash. @applesox | www.applesox.com | Wenatchee AppleSox | @applesox APPLESOX GAME INFORMATION | SATURDAY | JULY 29, 2017 | VS WALLA WALLA SWEETS PAGE 2 APPLESOX UPDATE AT A GLANCE WCL SECOND HALF STANDINGS WHEN APPLESOX... NORTH GB Score first 17-7 Victoria (12-8) (26-21) -- Score second or shutout 8-14 Bellingham (10-9) (26-20) 1.5 Score 3 runs or fewer 1-10 WENATCHEE (10-9) (25-21) 1.5 Score 4 runs or more 24-10 Walla Walla (8-11) (23-23) 3.5 Lead/Trail/Tie | 6th 17-5//5-16//3-0 Port Angeles (6-13) (16-30) 5.5 Lead/Trail/Tie | 7th 17-3//4-16//4-2 Kelowna* (6-13) (23-23) 5.5 Lead/Trail/Tie | 8th 19-3//1-17//5-1 Out-hit opponent 19-3 SOUTH GB Out-hit by opponent 3-14 Cowltiz (12-7) (23-23) -- Opponent hits equal 3-3 Corvallis* (13-8) (30-18) -- AppleSox 10+ hits 14-3 Bend (11-10) (23-25) 2 Opponent 10+ hits 6-10 Yakima Valley (9-9) (22-23) 2.5 AppleSox hit home run 12-8 Gresham (9-12) (19-29) 4 Opponent hits home run 8-12 AppleSox commit error(s) 15-15 NUMBER OF DAYS (56)... AppleSox errorless 10-1 Leading Division 11 Play after an off day 4-1 In second place 23 In third place 8 HOW MANY... In fourth place 7 Come-from-behind wins 12 In fifth place 4 Blown leads/result in loss 9 In last place 4 Innings batting around 11 Wins/loses in final at bat 2-2 BY SERIES... (W-L-T) Players used (pitchers) 39 (21) Series records 9-6 One-run games 8-9 Home series 5-2 Two-run games 1-3 Away series 4-4 Shutouts 3 Divisional series 6-1 Times shut out 1 League series 9-6 Non-league series 2-1-0 THE RECORD... First-Half series 6-3 June 14-10 Second-Half series 3-3 July 11-11 First game series 12-4 August 0-0 Second game series 7-8 First Half 15-12 Third game series 6-9 Second Half 10-9 Rubber match 2-3 Pre All-Star 21-15 Series sweeps 4-3 Post All-Star 4-6 Monday 3-2 VS... Tuesday 2-4 WCL North 17-8 Wednesday 5-3 WCL South 8-13 Thursday 3-4 Teams/Winning Record 10-6 Friday 4-4 Teams/Losing Record 11-12 Saturday 4-2 Teams/Better Record 7-4 Sunday 4-2 Teams/Worse Record 17-15 Teams/Leading North 1-1 WHEN APPLESOX WEAR... Teams/Leading South 0-0 Home White 6-2 Played in Washington 17-17 Road Blue 3-6 Played in Oregon 3-3 Alternate Red 15-8 Played in Canada 5-1 Chiefs Throwback 1-5 WENATCHEE VS... CURRENT SERIES... WCL 2017 All-time* Record 0-1 Bellingham 1-2 43-29 Team average .138 (4x29) Bend 1-2 30-36 Corvallis 0-0 36-39 Runs per game 4.00 (4R/1G) Cowlitz 1-5 19-14 Fielding errors 2 Gresham 4-2 7-5 Team ERA 4.00 (4ER/9IP) Kelowna 6-0 74-27 Starter’s W-L 0-1 Port Angeles 6-0 6-0 Victoria 4-2 15-15 Starter’s ERA 6.35 (4ER/5.2IP) Walla Walla 0-4 28-32 Bullpen W-L-S 0-0-0 Yakima Valley 2-4 12-18 Bullpen ERA 0.00 (0ER/3.1IP) Saves/opp. 0/0 CURRENT WCL^ 270-214 TOTAL WCL 389-268 Best homestand 3-0 (6/27-29) *All-time marks WCL since 2005 Worst homestand 1-2 (7/22-24) ^Does not include former WCL Best road trip 3-0 (7/25-27) Worst road trip 0-3 (7/19-21) @applesox | www.applesox.com | Wenatchee AppleSox | @applesox APPLESOX GAME INFORMATION | SATURDAY | JULY 29, 2017 | VS WALLA WALLA SWEETS PAGE 3 THE LAST TIME THE APPLESOX..