Walking Away Winners

WENATCHEE, Wash. – The Wenatchee AppleSox (27-21, 23-20) were walked 17 times en route to a 13-4 win over the Victoria HarbourCats (19-24).

AppleSox starter, Tyler Frost gave up a triple in the top of the first, but came up big and left the runner stranded to move things to the bottom half.

From there, the AppleSox scored four runs in the bottom of the first inning and started to run away with Tuesday’s contest.

Ty Jackson hit his eleventh double of the season and is now within one of the West Coast League lead.

Joe Gillette had a few of the AppleSox 17 walks. He walked four times and and drove in four runs as part of a 1-2 night.

Hunter Wells came on in relief in the seventh inning and completed the game, satisfying the minimum inning requirement to earn the save.

Wenatchee has now won all seven meetings with Victoria at Paul Thomas Sr. Field and is riding a four game win streak dating back to next year.

The AppleSox will send Brandon Bailey to the mound on Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. It is Cherry Creek Radio/Salvation Army food drive night, so if fans bring a bag of canned food to the stadium, they will receive free tickets to the game compliments of Cherry Creek Radio.

VIC     0 0 1  0 2 0   0 0 1    4    9   2

WEN   4 3 2  0 0 0   4 0 x   13  12  0

WP – Tyler Frost

LP – Mikey Wright

S – Hunter Wells