AppleSox Begin Long Homestand Against Sweets
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The Wenatchee AppleSox open a lengthy homestand with a 6:35 p.m. game against the Walla Walla Sweets tonight.
This evening marks the first of nine straight home games that the AppleSox will play. The first six come in the next six days before the team is off June 14-17. The AppleSox played two non-league games against the Northwest Star Academy last week and dropped both games.
Wenatchee spent the past weekend on the road and took one-of-three games against the Portland Pickles. The AppleSox bounced back from being one-hit on Friday and won Saturday thanks to five shutout innings of relief from Cole Hatton and six stolen bases, including two steals of home. Ben Leid homered on Sunday but Portland struck early and often to win 11-1.
Walla Walla is coming off taking two-of-three in their season-opening series against the Cowlitz Black Bears. All three games were decided by one run at David Story Field.
The most impressive game was Saturday when the Sweets, trailing by one run after giving up a run in the bottom of the seventh, rallied to score four runs in the top of the eighth. They would give up one run each of the final two innings but held on for the series-clinching win.
Justin Folz led the way for the Sweets at the plate by going 5-for-11 and driving in three runs. He was the catalyst for Walla Walla offensively on Saturday, hitting four-for-five with a solo home run and a double to go along with two runs scored.
Tonight’s starting pitcher is Hunter Salinas, an incoming sophomore at Colorado State Pueblo. He tossed two scoreless innings of relief against the Portland Pickles on Friday night in his first appearance this season. He did appear in a non-league game against the Northwest Star Academy on June 3 in his first appearance in an AppleSox uniform. Salinas tossed two scoreless frames, including working out of a one-out bases-loaded jam in the sixth inning.
Walla Walla will toss Nate Dahle, who is in his second season with the Sweets and is an incoming junior at Southern Idaho. He tossed a scoreless inning of relief against Cowlitz this past Saturday. Dahle recorded a 3.12 ERA in 10 games this spring at school and had a 2.87 ERA in 14 games for Walla Walla in 2019.
Gavin Gorrell and Gauge Lockhart are Head Coach Ian Sanderson’s probables for the final two games of this series with the Sweets.
Tonight's game is a $2 Off Tuesday. Fans can purchase tickets and select concession items for $2 off their regular price. Tomorrow night is AppleSox Lunch Box Giveaway Night. To purchase tickets to tonight’s game and any other June AppleSox home 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
