AppleSox Late Rally Not Enough vs Pippins
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The Wenatchee AppleSox scored two runs in the top of the ninth to tie the game up but were walked off by the Yakima Valley Pippins, 7-6, on Tuesday night at Yakima County Stadium.
Tino Bethancourt, A.J. Guerrero and Luc Stuka all recorded two-hit games and Garrett Cutting hit his first home run of the season. The real story of the night was Tyler Chipman. The 2018 Cashmere High School graduate came on with one out and two men on in the fifth and retired each of the next 13 hitters in order with nine via strikeouts.
Remarkably, Chipman’s Herculean effort was not enough to send the game to extras. The Pippins drew a two-out rally in the ninth with a full-count walk, an infield single and an error to walk off the AppleSox.
Before the Pippins won the game, the AppleSox tied it up without collecting a hit. Collin Villegas reached on an error and Bethancourt and Guerrero followed with walks to load up the bases. A wild pitch scored Villegas and Jackson Van De Brake hit a sacrifice fly with one out.
The AppleSox trailed 5-1 entering the fifth inning but rallied back to eventually tie it up. Cutting homered to lead off the inning and Guerrero singled in one for a two-run inning. After the Pippins got the run back in the bottom of the inning, Enzo Apodaca hit a two-out RBI single in the sixth.
Cole Hatton toes the rubber for the AppleSox in game two of the three-game series on Wednesday night at 6:36 p.m.
