2014 Wenatchee AppleSox GAME NOTES Wenatchee at Medford Saturday­Monday (June 14­16) Game Times: 6:35 p.m. Sat. and Sun.; 12:05 p.m. Mon. Harry & David Field (Medford, Ore.) Wenatchee AppleSox Baseball Club, 610 N. Mission St. #204, Wenatchee, WA 98801 [email protected] June APPLESOX TRAVEL TO MEDFORD 4 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (5-0) The Wenatchee AppleSox (7­3, 4­3) take on the Medford Rogues (6­2) in a three game 5 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (16-4) series from Saturday June 14th to Monday June 16th ...The three game series is the 6 at Yakima L (3-4) 7 at Yakima W (7-1) AppleSox third league series on the season....The AppleSox are entering their 15th 8 at Yakima W (3-2) season (10th in the WCL) and are 470­252(.651) under skipper Ed Knaggs, who is in his 9 KITSAP L (4-14) 14th season as head coach of the AppleSox club...The AppleSox have achieved a winning 10 KITSAP W (5-4) 11 KITSAP W (13-12) (11) record in all 14 seasons during Knaggs’ tenure...Knaggs is assisted by AJ Proszek and 12 NORTHWEST HONKERS W (18-7) Jason Krohn. 14 at Medford L (4-8) 15 at Medford 16 at Medford COVERAGE OF THE APPLESOX 17 at Klamath Falls The three game series with the Rogues will have live stats for all games provided by 18 at Klamath Falls pointstreak.com...all games will have live radio coverage on KCSY Sunny 93.9 FM in 19 at Klamath Falls 20 WALLA WALLA Wenatchee and on various translators throughout North Central Washington (Lake 21 WALLA WALLA Chelan Valley 95.3 FM, Okanogan Valley 101.9 FM, Methow Valley [Twisp­Winthrop] 22 WALLA WALLA 106.3 FM)...audio is also available at applesox.com/listen­live...AppleSox play by play 23 CORVALLIS 24 CORVALLIS broadcaster Trevor Williams will call the action...Saturday and Sunday’s pregame shows 25 CORVALLIS will start at 6:15 pm...Monday’s will be at 11:45 am...KWCC­TV (LocalTel cable channel 27 at Corvallis 12 or Charter cable channel 19) will televise games, allowing fans to hear the Sunny FM 28 at Corvallis 29 at Corvallis radio broadcast and simultaneously watch the animated playbook provided by point­ 30 BELLINGHAM streak...AppleSox Baseball provides updates on Twitter on @AppleSox and via Insta­ JULY gram by searching: AppleSox. 1 BELLINGHAM 2 BELLINGHAM* (Fireworks Night) 4 at Kelowna PITCHING PROBABLES 5 at Kelowna 6 at Kelowna 8 EVERETT MERCHANTS Sunday 9 NORTHWEST STAR ACADEMY Wenatchee ­ RH Ian Buckles (1 G, 1 GS, 1­0, 1.50 ERA, 6 IP, 6 H, 1 BB, 3 K) 10 WALLA WALLA Medford ­ RH Brandon Erickson (1 G, 1 GS, 1­0, 1.28 ERA, 7 IP, 4 H, 0 BB, 6 K) 11 WALLA WALLA 12 WALLA WALLA 14 at Walla Walla Monday 15 at Walla Walla Wenatchee ­ RH Drew Rasmussen (1 G, 0 GS, 0­0, 0.00 ERA, 2.1 IP, 1 H, 0 BB, 6 K) 16 at Walla Walla 17 at Yakima Medford­ RH David Peterson (1 G, 1 GS, 1­0, 1.80 ERA, 5 IP, 4 H, 3 BB, 1 K) 18 at Yakima 19 at Yakima WALK OFF WARRIORS 21 ALL STAR GAME (Klamath Falls) 22 KELOWNA 23 KELOWNA 24 KELOWNA 25 at Bend 26 at Bend 12 RUNS; NOT ENOUGH 27 at Bend ­ 29 VICTORIA sition. The 12 runs scored by Kitsap in Wednesday’s contest are the most scored against 30 VICTORIA 31 VICTORIA the Sox by an opponent in a loss. The AppleSox gave up 11 runs and won three times AUGUST previously in franchise hsitory. 1 COWLITZ 2 COWLITZ 3 COWLITZ TOO CLOSE TO CALL 5 at Kelowna 6 at Kelowna 7 at Kelowna 8 YAKIMA 9 YAKIMA 10 YAKIMA DIVISIONAL 12­14 ­­ CHAMP. 16,18­19 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES Wenatchee at Medford Harry & David Field Page 2 ABOUT THE ROGUES WENATCHEE’S RECORD... The Medford Rogues are a WCL expansion team, established prior to the 2013 season. 2014 They faced Wenatchee six times last season and play in the WCL South Division. They Overall 7­3 League 4­3 Non­league 3­0 after splitting 6 meetings with the AppleSox a year ago. Division 2­1 Home games 5­1 Away games 2­2 SERIES WITH THE ROGUES Day games 1­0 The Medford Rogues were established in 2013. The AppleSox have met with them 6 Night games 6­3 times previously in WCL play. Saturday will mark their seventh meeting. The all time series is tied at three a piece (3­3). Series 4­0 Home Series 3­0 Away Series 1­0 ABOVE .500 First game of series 2­3 The AppleSox have a better than .500 record against 8 of their 11 WCL Opponents. Rubber game of series 2­0 Last game of series 4­0 Medford (3­3) and Corvallis (30­30) have an even .500 record with Wenatchee. The only Series sweeps 2­0 team with an above .500 record against the Sox is the Bend Elks. They lead the AppleSox 24­25 in the all­time series. Doubleheader 0­0 Extra innings 1­0 Shutouts 1­0 QUICK TO DEFROST June games 7­3 ­ July games 0­0 ning pitcher on Tuesday as Wenatchee came back in the bottom of the ninth to defeat August games 0­0 the Kitsap BlueJackets; just hours after Frost arrived in town. Thursday, he saw his Sunday games 1­0 Monday games 0­1 eleventh inning of the Sox second straight come from behind win. He singled home the Tuesday games 1­0 Wednesday games 2­0 tying run in the ballgame with a hard groundball up the middle. He was pinch hitting for Thursday games 2­0 Simon Rosenbaum, who had a solo home run earlier in the game. Friday games 0­1 Saturday games 1­1 LONG GAMES: GOOD TIMES ­ sulted in wins. The average time of a ballgame at Paul Thomas this season? 3 Hours and 1­run games 3­1 12 Minutes (The all­time average for AppleSox baseball is just a touch over two and a 2­run games 0­0 Sox scored 3 runs or less 1­1 half hours). Following Wednesday’s 3 hour and 19 minute marathon, the AppleSox have Sox scored 4 runs or more 6­2 strung together four consecutive home games totaling 3+ hours a piece. This marks the Leading after 6 innings 5­0 Tied after 6 innings 1­0 Trailing after 6 innings 1­3 THE ROAD TO OMAHA Leading after 7 innings 6­0 Tied after 7 innings 0­0 Out of the 40 players on Wenatchee’s preseason roster, 5 entered the NCAA Division Trailing after 7 innings 0­3 I Baseball Tournament with dreams of claiming a National Championship Trophy in Leading after 8 innings 6­0 Omaha, Neb. Drew Rasmussen and Nate Esposito of Oregon State, along with Shaun Tied after 8 innings 0­0 Trailing after 8 innings 1­3 ­ Sox outhit opponent 4­1 They went on to face Oklahoma State and eventually sweep the Cowboys in Super Opponent outhits Sox 2­2 Hits are equal 1­0 Sox hit a HR 3­0 Corvallis Regional, before UCI eliminated them in game three. Sox hit 2 or more HRs 1­0 Sox have a SB 6­1 “SENIOR” CITIZENS Sox have 2 or more SBs 0­0 Ian Buckles, Clark McKitrick, Tom Zarosinski, Nate Esposito, and Mike Livingston are Sox starter with 6+ IP 2­0 amongst the oldest on the AppleSox roster. These 5 players will be entering their senior Sox starter with 7+ IP 0­0 Sox starter with 8+ IP 0­0 seasons of college baseball in 2015. Half of the AppleSox preseason listed players (20) Sox are errorless 1­0 just completed their freshman year of classes. Come­from­behind Wins 4 Last At Bats Wins 2 YOUNG BUCKS Nine of the AppleSox 40 listed preseason players are entering the WCL straight out of high school. Following the season, they will go on to make their collegiate debuts at Oregon State, UCLA, Gonzaga, the University of San Diego, Nevada and UC Irvine. 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES Wenatchee at Medford Harry & David Field Page 3 Wenatchee vs... MEET THE SOX 2014 All­time* #2 Tanner Nishioka ­ 2014 Third Team All­West region from Pomona Pitzer...turned Bellingham Bells 0­0 35­20 Bend Elks 0­0 24­25 Corvallis Knights 0­0 30­30 Football team, where he is a punter, while sometimes seeing spot duty at wide receiver. Cowlitz Black Bears 0­0 15­3 Kelowna Falcons 0­0 52­19 Clutch single for insurance run vs. Yakima on 6/7 (pinch runner in the 8th) Kitsap BlueJackets 2­1 37­17 Klamath Falls Gems 0­0 15­3 Medford Rogues 0­1 3­4 #3 Adam Grubb ­ Signed to a temporary contract...played in 6 games and started one Victoria HarbourCats 0­0 7­2 for Wenatchee Valley College...is from Wenatchee and was a 2013 Wenatchee High Walla Walla Sweets 0­0 18­13 Yakima Valley Pippins 2­1 2­1 School graduate...threw 19.1 Innings, compiled a 1­0 record, struck out 13 batters and *All­Time denotes WCL games since 2005 with 5 strikeouts against SF on 6/5. DIVISION STANDINGS W­L GB EAST #4 Caleb Wood Wenatchee AppleSox 4­3 ­ batting .300...was a perfect 11 for 11 in steal attempts as a freshman in 2013...was named Walla Walla Sweets 3­4 1 Yakima Valley Pippins 3­4 1 to the All­WCC Freshman team in 2013 and played in 46 games for the Zags that year..