2014 Wenatchee AppleSox GAME NOTES Yakima Valley at Wenatchee Friday-Sunday (August 8-10) Game Times: 7:05 p.m. Fri. & Sat.; 6:05 p.m. Sun. 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) OUTSIDE LOOKING IN; WENATCHEE ENTERS FINAL HOME SERIES 4 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (5-0) The Wenatchee AppleSox (33-23, 29-22) welcome the WCL East Champion Yakima Valley 5 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (16-4) Pippins (33-18) to Wenatchee for the first time in league history...Wenatchee is in a must- 6 at Yakima L (3-4) 7 at Yakima W (7-1) sweep scenario against Yakima, if the AppleSox are to make the playoffs...Even then, the 8 at Yakima W (3-2) coldest team record-wise in the WCL must take two of three from Bend...The AppleSox 9 KITSAP L (4-14) are entering their 15th season (10th in the WCL) and are 495-272 (.643) under skipper Ed 10 KITSAP W (5-4) 11 KITSAP W (13-12) (11) Knaggs, who is in his 14th season as head coach of the AppleSox club...The AppleSox 12 NORTHWEST HONKERS W (18-7) have achieved a winning record in all 14 seasons during Knaggs’ tenure...Knaggs is as- 14 at Medford L (4-8) sisted by AJ Proszek and Jason Krohn. 15 at Medford W (3-2) 16 at Medford L (2-7) 17 at Klamath Falls L (8-10) COVERAGE OF THE APPLESOX 18 at Klamath Falls W (2-1) The three game series with the Pippins will have live stats for all games provided by 19 at Klamath Falls W (17-4) 20 WALLA WALLA L (5-15) pointstreak.com...all games will have live radio coverage on KCSY Sunny 93.9 FM in 21 WALLA WALLA W (5-1) Wenatchee and on various translators throughout North Central Washington (Lake 22 WALLA WALLA W (7-3) Chelan Valley 95.3 FM, Okanogan Valley 101.9 FM, Methow Valley [Twisp-Winthrop] 23 CORVALLIS W (5-4) 24 CORVALLIS W (3-0) 106.3 FM)...audio is also available at applesox.com/listen-live...AppleSox play by play 25 CORVALLIS L (5-6) broadcaster Trevor Williams will call the action...Pregame shows for Friday and Satur- 27 at Corvallis W (5-2) day’s games start at 7:05 p.m...Sunday’s pregame starts at 6:05 p.m...KWCC-TV (Lo- 28 at Corvallis L (1-2) 29 at Corvallis W (5-4) calTel cable channel 12 or Charter cable channel 19) will televise games, allowing fans 30 BELLINGHAM L (1-8) to hear the Sunny FM radio broadcast...AppleSox Baseball provides updates on Twitter JULY -- (12-13, 11-12) on @AppleSox, on Facebook (Wenatchee AppleSox) and via Instagram by searching: 1 BELLINGHAM L (2-6) 2 BELLINGHAM* L (6-7) AppleSox. Fans are also encouraged to connect with the AppleSox Broadcast Booth, by 4 at Kelowna W (9-1) following @AppleSox_Radio on twitter. 5 at Kelowna L (4-13) 6 at Kelowna W (5-3) 8 EVERETT MERCHANTS L (8-14) 9 NORTHWEST STAR W (22-0) 10 WALLA WALLA L (9-16) 11 WALLA WALLA L (5-7) 12 WALLA WALLA L (10-15) PITCHING PROBABLES 14 at Walla Walla W (6-3) 15 at Walla Walla L (7-8) Friday 16 at Walla Walla L (9-10) (14) 17 at Yakima W (11-1) Wenatchee - Drew Rasmussen RHP (9G, 8GS, 3-2, 5.57 ERA, 40.1 IP, 41 K, 24 BB, 44 H) 18 at Yakima W (7-4) (11) Yakima- Matt Trask RHP (9G, 1GS, 2-0, 3.17 ERA, 17 IP, 17 K, 10 BB, 17 H) 19 at Yakima W (4-2) 21 ALL STAR GAME -- Rained Out -- 22 KELOWNA L (1-17) Saturday 23 KELOWNA W (2-1) Wenatchee - Tyler Frost RHP (8G, 6GS, 4-2, 3.55 ERA, 38 IP, 30 K, 8 BB, 33 H) 24 KELOWNA W (12-1) Yakima- Beau Kerns RHP (10G, 6GS, 2-4, 4.46 ERA, 38.1 IP, 17 K, 9 BB, 49 H) 25 at Bend L (4-7) 26 at Bend L (7-8) 27 at Bend W (3-2) (14) Sunday 29 VICTORIA W (13-4) Wenatchee - Brandon Bailey RHP (9G, 9GS, 2-2, 1.52 ERA, 35.1 IP, 42 K,7 BB, 31 H) 30 VICTORIA L (0-5) 31 VICTORIA W (9-2) Yakima- Austin Woodward RHP (9G, 8GS, 3-2, 3.10 ERA, 55 IP, 36 K, 13 BB, 55 H) AUGUST 1 COWLITZ W (6-3) 2 COWLITZ L (4-7) (11) 3 COWLITZ W (9-4) 5 at Kelowna W (11-0) 6 at Kelowna W (15-8) (10) 7 at Kelowna W (6-2) (10) 8 YAKIMA 9 YAKIMA 10 YAKIMA DIVISIONAL 12-14 -- CHAMP. 16,18-19 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES Yakima Valley at Wenatchee Paul Thomas Sr. Field Page 2 ABOUT THE YAKIMA VALLEY PIPPINS WENATCHEE’S RECORD... The Yakima Valley Pippins are a WCL Expansion team, established in 2014. They have set 2014 many franchise expansion records, including largest opening night crowd, most players Overall 33-23 to the team’s first All Star Game, most wins by a WCL expansion team, and first WCL League 29-22 Non-league 4-1 expansion team to win their division. They are the 2014 WCL East Champions and are Division 15-9 coached by former AppleSox player Marcus McKimmy. They play at County Stadium in Home games 16-13 Away games 17-10 Yakima, the former site of the Minor League’s Yakima Bears. Day games 1-1 Night games 32-22 SERIES WITH THE PIPPINS The Yakima Valley Pippins are 33-18 and are the winners of the WCL East Division. The Series 14-5 AppleSox have had the Pippins number in 2014, going 5-1 with and are riding a five- Home Series 8-2 Away Series 6-3 game win streak, following their opening night loss to the Yakima outfit. The Pippins and First game of series 10-9 AppleSox have met in extra innings once; a 7-4 win that went to Wenatchee. Rubber game of series 9-2 Last game of series 14-5 Series sweeps 4-2 UNDERDOG The AppleSox have worn many metaphorical hats in their ten years in the WCL (and Doubleheader 0-0 Extra innings 5-2 15 as a franchise), however, “underdog” is not one Wenatchee is entirely familiar with. Shutouts 4-1 The AppleSox are just that; underdogs; heading into the final series of 2014. There are June games 16-9 two scenarios that could place them in the postseason. They must either take two or July games 12-13 three from Yakima and if they win two, Bend must get swept by Klamath Falls. If they August games 5-1 sweep Yakima, Bend must lose twice. A Bend win and AppleSox loss, Friday, eliminates Sunday games 7-0 Wenatchee from playoff consideration. Wenatchee has a 13-season streak of making Monday games 2-3 postseason play and have never not made the post season as a member of the WCL. Ed Tuesday games 4-5 Wednesday games 6-4 Knaggs has only not qualified for postseason play as a coach in Wenatchee once (his first Thursday games 7-1 season). Friday games 4-4 Saturday games 3-6 THE LAST TIME... AppleSox score first 21-7 The last time the AppleSox didn’t qualify for the playoffs, their current youngest players Opponent scores first 12-16 were five years old. 1-run games 9-7 2-run games 2-2 Sox scored 3 runs or less 6-9 APPLESOX VS. YAKIMA (AND VS. EVERYONE ELSE) Sox scored 4 runs or more 26-15 Wenatchee Batting vs. YAK: .272 AVG / 35 R / 58 H / 6 2B / 2 3B / 2 HR / 29 RBI / 32 BB / 36 K / 6 SB / .374 OBP Leading after 6 innings 25-3 Tied after 6 innings 4-2 Wenatchee Batting (on Avg.) vs. any other league opponent: Trailing after 6 innings 4-18 .294 AVG / 30.9 R / 53.4 H / 7.7 2B / 1.1 3B / 1.8 HR / 25.6 RBI / 24 BB / 30.5 K / 4.6 SB / Leading after 7 innings 27-3 Tied after 7 innings 3-1 .384 OBP Trailing after 7 innings 2-19 Leading after 8 innings 28-0 Wenatchee Pitching vs. YAK: Tied after 8 innings 2-3 Trailing after 8 innings 3-20 1.96 ERA / 4 SV / 55 IP / 42 H / 14 R / 12 ER / 21BB / 47 K / 1 HR / 4 2B / 1 3B / .215 AVG Wenatchee Pitching (on Avg.) vs. any other league opponent: Sox outhit opponent 24-7 4.02 ERA / 1.5 SV / 46.7 IP / 47 H / 28.1 R / 20.9 ER / 8.6BB / 44.9 K / 2.5HR / 8 2B / .9 3B / Opponent outhits Sox 6-16 .257 AVG Hits are equal 2-0 Sox hit a HR 11-5 Sox hit 2 or more HRs 2-1 *The above stats for vs. rest of league are based on total stats divided by 10. Sox have a SB 19-10 Sox have 2 or more SBs 7-2 RASMUSSEN MAKES FIRST START VS. YAKIMA Sox starter with 6+ IP 11-4 In league play, Drew Rasmussen has faced WCL East foes, Walla Walla and Kelowna Sox starter with 7+ IP 5-1 Sox starter with 8+ IP 0-0 twice each.