Port Angeles Lefties [9-16] [13-10] Wenatchee AppleSox at 6th \\ WCL North \\ 6.5 GB 1.5 GB \\ WCL North \\ 3rd paul thomas sr. stadium [1,200] | WENATCHEE, WASH. | GAME #24 [13-10] | HOME #12 [8-3] THURSday, June 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 13-10 Tues. 6/27 WEN 8, PA 3 2:45 WP- Collin Maier (4-1) LP- Brandon Reynolds (0-1) League 13-10 Wed. 6/28 WEN 9, PA 3 2:54 WP- Connor McCord (2-0) RH- Trayson Kubo (1-2) Division 6-5 Non-league 0-0 Thurs. 6/29 Port Angeles 7:05p RH- Hunter Boyd (3-0, 2.73) RH- Andrew Zmuda (0-1, 2.07) Home games 8-3 Away games 5-7 APPLESOX FACE MUST-HAVE SWEEP ON JULIO CRUZ NIGHT Day games 0-1 The Wenatchee AppleSox (13-10, 6-5 North), continue their series with the Port Angeles Lefties (9-16, 6-10 North) after last night’s Night games 13-9 9-3 series win...the AppleSox are a game and a half out of first place behind the Kelowna Falcons....the AppleSox are playing their vs. RH starter 10-5 vs. LH starter 3-5 18th franchise season (13th in the WCL) and are led by first-year head coach, Kyle Krustangel (13-10) (.565), who has completed Extra innings 1-2 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 AppleSox are meeting the Port APPLESOX MOVE UP A SPOT IN NORTH STANDINGS, TAKE SERIES FROM PA Angeles Lefties for the first time, The AppleSox used two big innings to down the Lefties, Wednesday night at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium...four run frames in this series...the AppleSox are 12-3 the third and the sixth, ensured Wenatchee a fourth-straight series win to open its home schedule...the Lefties took a lead in all-time in their inaugural games the game, as they did in game one, behind runs in the second and third off of Connor McCord (2-0)...McCord recovered for against WCL teams, after Tuesday a quality start and victory, shutting down PA over the next three innings...Cole McKenzie started the scoring in the third with night’s win...the only losses were to Corvallis, Medford, and Yakima a solo home run to right field...Nine more batters and three AppleSox runs proved to put the game out of reach...for good Valley. measure in the sixth, Evan Johnson hit his 32nd and 33rd RBIs on a double off the right field fence...Wenatchee tacked on another in the eighth, and the bullpen was solid for the victory. TONIGHT’S NOTES LAST 10 VS. PA (2-0) BOYD’S BIG NIGHT JULIO CRUZ NIGHT IN NOT THAT WE’RE Hunter Boyd has an opportunity 6/28/17 @WEN W, 9-3 WENATCHEE SUPERSTITIOUS... 6/27/17 @WEN W, 8-3 to become the fiftth WCL pitcher The Chelan PUD helped orchestrate The AppleSox are wearing their to reach the four-win mark, tonight Julio Cruz Day in the Wenatchee white diamond logo uniforms (joining current teammate Collin Valley today...the former Mariner tonight...a combo the club hasn’t Maier, if he gets it done)...and can played with seattle from 1977-83 lost in this year...a perfect 4-0. also tie Cal Hehnke of Kelowna and at one time led the Mariners in for the WCL strikeout lead, with career stolen bases (290), before THAT’S A WINNING seven punchouts tonight...34 cur- Ichiro surpassed the mark in May rently leads the league, and Boyd of 2008...nicknamed “The Cruzer” STREAK... has thrown 27 this year to lead all and “Juice,” Cruz played with some Wenatchee has now won its last SOX STREAKS AppleSox pitchers. of the Mariner greats, including three games, and four of its last five outings...the AppleSox modest Current Streak W3 Gaylord Perry...(one season at the Homestand/Trip 2-0 THE PLAYOFF HUNT end of Perry’s career, although he three-game winning streak ties for Last 15 Games 9-6 To catch the current WCL leader, did win his 300th game in Seattle)... the longest of the season (June 7-9 Last 10 Games 6-4 at and vs. Victoria HarbourCats). Last 5 Games 4-1 the AppleSox need to win their final Cruz attended the AppleSox Youth Last 5 Games/Home 4-1 four first-half games (one vs. Port Camp this morning. Last 5 Games/Away 2-3 Angeles and three at Cowlitz) and BROOMS AT THE READY Last 5 Games/Division 4-1 have the Kelowna Falcons lose two Tonight, Wenatchee is trying to do GET AHEAD LOOKING AHEAD of their last three games July 3-5 Hunter Boyd leads all AppleSox something it hasn’t since 2015...the to the Yakima Valley Pippins...if the starting pitchers with a 60-percent last Wenatchee AppleSox sweep AppleSox vs. River City AppleSox lose one of the next four, first-pitch strike percentage. was July 2-4, 2015 at home against June 30 / July 1 Kelowna must lose all three to the the Klamath Falls Gems...last sea- 7:05p / 7:05p Pippins (Falcons hold tiebreaker). son, the AppleSox were swept five Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium times. Wenatchee, Wash. @applesox | www.applesox.com | Wenatchee AppleSox | @applesox APPLESOX GAME INFORMATION | THURSDAY | JUNE 29, 2017 | VS PORT ANGELES PAGE 2 APPLESOX UPDATE AT A GLANCE WCL FIRST HALF STANDINGS WHEN APPLESOX... NORTH GB Score first 9-4 Kelowna (15-9) -- VS WEN LEAGUE SEA. SEA. LEAGUE VS PA Score second or shutout 4-6 Bellingham (13-8) .5 .208 5th .261 AVG .277 3rd .329 Score 3 runs or fewer 0-6 WENATCHEE (13-10) 1.5 Score 4 runs or more 13-4 Walla Walla (11-9) 2 6 7th 125 R 153 1st 17 Lead/Trail/Tie | 6th 12-4//0-6//1-0 Victoria (12-13) 3.5 15 2nd 222 H 228 1st 23 Lead/Trail/Tie | 7th 11-2//0-6//2-2 Port Angeles (9-16) 6.5 Lead/Trail/Tie | 8th 11-2//0-7//2-1 3 3rd 17 HR 16 4th 2 Out-hit opponent 11-0 SOUTH GB 3 5th 41 2B 40 6th 5 Out-hit by opponent 2-8 Corvallis (14-10) -- Opponent hits equal 0-2 Yakima Valley (11-11) 2 0 9th 2 3B 1 T10 0 AppleSox 10+ hits 8-2 Bend (10-13) 3.5 17 9th 188 SO 181 7th 18 Opponent 10+ hits 3-5 Cowlitz (9-12) 3.5 AppleSox hit home run 8-2 Gresham (10-16) 5 4 T5 91 BB 107 3rd 12 Opponent hits home run 3-6 AppleSox commit error(s) 9-10 NUMBER OF DAYS (25)... AppleSox errorless 4-0 Leading Division 2 9.56 8th 4.70 ERA 3.66 2nd 2.00 Play after an off day 2-0 In second place 3 23 8th 214 HA 204 6th 15 In third place 5 HOW MANY... In fourth place 7 17 10th 147 RA 119 5th 6 Come-from-behind wins 4 In fifth place 4 18 4th 181 K 190 1st 17 Blown leads/result in loss 6 In last place 4 Innings batting around 7 12 11th 123 BB 86 T5 4 Wins/loses in final at bat 1-2 BY SERIES... (W-L-T) Players used (pitchers) 37 (19) Series records 6-2 One-run games 5-5 Home series 4-0 Two-run games 0-1 Away series 2-2 Shutouts 1 Divisional series 3-1 Times shut out 1 League series 6-2 TONIGHT’S PROBABLE STARTING PITCHER Non-league series 0-0-0 #23 RHP CONNOR MCCORD THE RECORD... First-Half series 6-2 June 13-10 Second-Half series 0-0 The Last Time... 2017 Bests... July 0-0 August 0-0 First game series 7-1 Won: 6/17 vs. GRE IP: 6.2, 2x, 6/17 vs. GRE Second game series 4-4 First Half 13-10 Lost: N/A vs./at N/A K: 10, 6/17 vs. GRE Third game series 2-5 Second Half 0-0 No-Dec.: 6/8 vs. VIC* BB: 1, 6/12 vs. YVP* Rubber match 2-1 Pre All-Star 13-10 Series sweeps 0-1 Home Run: N/A vs./at N/A R: 1, 6/8 vs. VIC* Post All-Star 0-0 *relief appearances Monday 2-1 VS... Tuesday 1-2 WCL North 6-5 Wednesday 4-0 WCL South 7-5 Thursday 1-2 Teams/Winning Record 4-4 NO STATS TO SHOW... Friday 2-2 Teams/Losing Record 6-4 Saturday 1-2 Teams/Better Record 6-4 Sunday 2-1 Teams/Worse Record 7-5 Teams/Leading North 1-1 WHEN APPLESOX WEAR... Teams/Leading South 0-0 Home White 4-0 Played in Washington 8-6 Road Blue 0-4 Played in Oregon 3-3 Alternate Red 9-3 Played in Canada 2-1 Chiefs Throwback 0-3 WENATCHEE VS... CURRENT SERIES... WCL 2017 All-time* Record 2-0 Bellingham 0-0 42-27 Team average .329 (23x70) Bend 1-2 30-36 Corvallis 0-0 36-39 Runs per game 8.50 (17R/2G) Cowlitz 0-0 18-9 Fielding errors 3 Gresham 4-2 7-5 Team ERA 2.00 (4ER/18IP) Kelowna 0-0 68-27 Starter’s W-L 2-0 Port Angeles 2-0 2-0 TOMORROW’S PROBABLE STARTING PITCHER Victoria 4-2 15-15 Starter’s ERA 2.45 (3ER/11IP) Walla Walla 0-3 28-31 #11 RHP STEEN FREDRICKSON Bullpen W-L-S 0-0-0 Yakima Valley 2-1 12-15 Bullpen ERA 1.29 (1ER/7IP) Saves/opp.