AppleSox Begin Longest Road Trip of 2021 Tonight
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The Wenatchee AppleSox (6-6) will play their first road game tonight in over two weeks but will get plenty of road action over the next five days. The Cowlitz Black Bears (4-5) welcome the AppleSox for the first of three games tonight at 6:35 p.m. at David Story Field.
The AppleSox played nine consecutive home games over a 13-day span and went 5-4 during the homestand. They took two-of-three from the Walla Walla Sweets, two-of-three against the Bellingham Bells and added another win against the Bend Elks. The AppleSox opened this past weekend before losing each of the next two games, including in extra innings on Sunday to drop to .500.
AppleSox relievers, who had only allowed 23 runs through 46 innings (4.50 ERA) in the first 10 games of the season, surrendered 21 runs in 10.2 innings (17.72 ERA) in the final two games of the series
Tonight, they face a Black Bears team that also lost its series this past weekend. Cowlitz visited Corvallis and walloped the Knights 10-1 on Sunday, but lost two close games on Friday (5-3) and Sunday (6-4). The win on Saturday marked the first time that the Black Bears played a game that was decided by a margin of more than two runs. That includes each of their first six games being decided by one run.
The AppleSox are 23-16 all time against the Black Bears, including winnings four-of-the-last-five meetings between the two teams. Prior to that, the AppleSox had lost six consecutive games against Cowlitz, with five of those coming in the final meetings of the 2017 season. Wenatchee is 11-10 against the Black Bears at David Story Field, home of Lower Columbia College, where AppleSox Head Coach Ian Sanderson is the associate head coach and pitching coach at.
Tonight’s starting pitcher is Cole Hatton. The right-hander from Saint Martin’s University is making his third appearance on the mound this summer. He made his AppleSox’ debut in dramatic fashion on June 5 by tossing five scoreless innings of relief against the Portland Pickles to earn the save. He made his first start of the summer on June 11 against Bellingham and allowed three runs in three innings on the mound. He has struck out six in two outings, but has also walked six.
Hatton recorded a 7.31 ERA and struck out 26 in 44.1 innings over 11 games as a freshman this past Spring. He attended Ocosta High School in Washington and earned Pacific League First Team honors as a freshman, sophomore, and junior and was Pacific League MVP as a sophomore and junior.
Hatton will be opposed by Carson Angeroth. He making his second start in league play and his third overall. He made his season debut on June 9 by allowing one run over five innings and earning the win in the Black Bears’ 2-1 win over Bend. He also started against the Highline Bears on June 15 and allowed one unearned run in four innings.
Though the AppleSox are on the road, 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.
Live stats can be found on Pointstreak.
