AppleSox Look to Bounce Back Tonight

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The Wenatchee AppleSox wrap up a brief two-game non-league series with the Northwest Star Academy tonight at 6:35 at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium.

The AppleSox dropped the first game of the series and the season, 8-3, last night. Wenatchee matched the Nighthawks with seven errors committed, but they also left 17 men on the basepaths and ultimately dropped the game.

Tonight, the AppleSox look to build off some of the strong points in last night’s game. Enzo Apodaca led off and reached base in five of his six plate appearances. Cole Hatton tossed two scoreless innings of work and only allowed one base-runner in that time.

Shortstop Brooks Dyer led the way for the Nighthawks by going 3-for-5 and reaching base in all five plate appearances while also driving in a pair of runs. Relievers Cale LaFever, Nathan Tastad and Sawyer Parkin combined to toss five scoreless innings of relief.

The biggest keys tonight are to limit defensive miscues and cash in with runners in when runners reach base. Each of the final six runs across three different innings that the Nighthawks scored last night came with two outs. Wenatchee twice batted with the bases loaded and two outs and went back to the dugout without driving any of those runners in both times.

The loss last night snapped the AppleSox’ streak of eight consecutive wins against non-league opponents. Their last loss to an opponent from outside the West Coast League was against the River City Athletics in the 2018 home opener on June 5, 2018.

To purchase tickets to tonight’s game, please visit applesox.com/tickets.

If you cannot attend tonight’s game, then you can still listen live to the action on Sunny FM. Listeners can tune in at kcsyfm.com on their desktop computer or by tuning in at any of the following stations below.

  • Wenatchee: 93.9 FM

  • East Wenatchee/Rock Island: 98.1 FM

  • Lake Chelan Valley: 95.3 FM

  • Brewster/Pateros: 101.3 FM

  • Okanogan Valley: 101.9 FM

  • Omak/Tonasket/Oroville: 97.7 FM

  • Methow Valley: 106.3 FM

Pregame coverage begins at 6:10 p.m. with the Horan Estates Winery Pregame Show and the broadcast wraps up each night with the Denny’s Late Night Postgame Show. Tonight’s game will also have a live video without the radio feed. It can be seen on playsight.com