AppleSox Play Final 2021 Game Tonight
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The Wenatchee AppleSox conclude their 2021 season with tonight’s 7:05 game against the Yakima Valley Pippins at Yakima County Stadium.
The AppleSox even up their season-ending series with a 5-4 win last night. Cole Hatton only allowed two earned runs and struck out five in five innings to pick up his second win of the season. Skylar Hales allowed one run in three innings before Chase Grillo fired a scoreless ninth for his fifth save of the summer.
Collin Villegas gave the AppleSox an early lead with a bases-clearing double in the third inning. Villegas did not have any RBI through his first 16 games of the summer but has driven in all nine of his RBI in the last six games. Three times in that span he has recorded multi-RBI efforts.
Garrett Cutting moved two triples away from tying Keston Hiura (2015) for the AppleSox single-season record of six with a fourth-inning 2-RBI triple to give the AppleSox the lead for good. Cutting recorded his fourth multi-hit game of the summer. All of them have come in the month of August spanning his last seven games. Cutting is hitting .360 (9-for-25) this month.
The AppleSox are out of playoff contention and will wrap up the 2021 season with tonight’s game. Bellingham hosts Yakima Valley for Game 1 of the West Coast League North Division Series on Saturday before the series shifts to Yakima for Game 2 on Sunday and, if necessary, Game 3 on Monday.
The South Division’s second-half playoff spot is still up for grabs. According to the West Coast League’s website, Portland earns it with a win or with a loss and a Bend loss. Bend claims the spot if the win and both Portland and Ridgefield lose. Ridgefield earns its first-ever playoff berth if it wins, Portland loses, and Bend wins. The winner of the second-half playoff spot will host Corvallis on Saturday before the series heads to Corvallis for Game 2 on Sunday and, if necessary, Game 3 on Monday.
The AppleSox send Jack Lee to the rubber for Thursday night’s game. He started last Friday at home and posted season highs for innings, strikeouts and pitches. He is 1-2 with an 8.10 ERA in four games, three starts, in league actions. Lee has also started two non-league games and posted a 4.50 ERA with nine strikeouts over six innings.
Payton Childers makes his first start in his first West Coast League game for the Yakima Valley Pippins. He had no record and a 1.76 ERA over 15.1 innings nine games (one start) for Yakima Valley College this spring.
Listen live to the action on Sunny FM at kcsyfm.com on your 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 6:40 p.m. with the Horan Estates Winery Pregame Show and the broadcast wraps up with the Denny’s Late Night Postgame Show. Joel Norman will provide play-by-play coverage.
Live stats can be found on Pointstreak.
