AppleSox Shut Out Sweets For Series-Opening Win
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The Wenatchee AppleSox blanked the Walla Walla Sweets, 5-0, behind five shutout innings from Hunter Salinas and a two-run homer from Adam Grob on Tuesday night at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium.
Salinas dominated on the mound, striking out five and only allowing four baserunners. He left the game with a 2-0 lead but the AppleSox added three more insurance runs. 2018 Cashmere High School graduate Tyler Chipman followed him up by tossing three scoreless innings before Chase Grillo fired a scoreless ninth for the team’s first shutout of the season.
The AppleSox scored first for the first time this season when Grob led off the third with a single and then immediately scored on Mark Steward’s RBI double to left field. Aidan Selfridge, who joined the team on Monday and made his season-debut on Tuesday night, followed up two batters later with a double to left of his own to score Steward.
After the double by Selfridge, the next 11 AppleSox hitters were retired in order, but once they did get a base-runner they wouldn’t waste the opportunity. Payton Flynn drew a leadoff walk to begin the seventh and would score when Grob crushed a 358-foot home run over the left field fence with two outs. Tino Bethancourt added an RBI single in the eighth inning with two outs.
The AppleSox will go for the series win against the Sweets on Wednesday night when Gavin Gorrell gets the ball for the 6:35 p.m. first pitch.
Listen to postgame interviews with Head Coach Ian Sanderson as well as Salinas and Grob below.
