AppleSox Look For Ninth Series Victory Tonight
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The Wenatchee AppleSox aim to stretch their winning streak to five games tonight as they face the Nanaimo NightOwls at 6:35 at Serauxmen Stadium.
Wenatchee opened up a six-game road trip with a 12-8 victory last night. The AppleSox had two huge innings, scoring seven runs in the top of the fifth before adding four in the seventh. Carson Ohland led the AppleSox bats with a 4-for-4 night and drove in a pair of runs.
The road trip started off favorably thanks in part to the AppleSox’ patience at the plate. Wenatchee has drawn 10 walks in each of the last two games and is now fourth in the West Coast League with 174 free passes drawn.
Last night’s 10-run effort was the AppleSox’ eighth time scoring double-digit runs. Wenatchee’s 201 runs scored are second-most in the WCL behind the Victoria HarbourCats’ 243 runs. The AppleSox travel to Victoria this weekend in a matchup of two teams that would face each other in the best-of-three North Division Series if the season ended today.
A win tonight or tomorrow would match the AppleSox series win total from a year ago. Wenatchee is four wins away from matching the regular-season win total from the 2022 season. This is the AppleSox’ 11th series of the summer and they have won eight of the first 10 with four of those series victories being three-game sweeps.
Samuel Round makes his second start of the summer tonight and is coming off allowing two runs in four innings on July 2 against Edmonton. He gave up both of his runs in the third inning but came back out to put up a zero in the fourth. The incoming freshman at Gonzaga has no record and a 7.50 ERA, five strikeouts, four walks and six hits in six innings.
Seth Gurr goes for the NightOwls in his third start of the summer. The Nanaimo native is 2-0 with a 0.90 ERA, eight strikeouts, no walks and four hits over 10 innings. Gurr fired six shutout innings against Port Angeles on June 30 while only allowing one hit and striking out four. Each of his previous starts have also come at home and he has not allowed a run in his last eight innings of work.
Fans can tune in to the action tonight and all season long on KCSY Sunny FM. Pregame coverage presented by Kenady Real Estate Group begins at 6:10 p.m. You can listen online worldwide at kcsyfm.com, the TuneIn radio app or on one of the following translators.
93.9 FM in Wenatchee
95.3 FM in the Lake Chelan Valley
97.7 FMin Omak, Riverside, Tonasket and Oroville
98.1 FM in East Wenatchee, Rock Island and Quincy
101.3 FM in Brewster and Pateros
106.3 FM in the Methow Valley
All West Coast League games can also be watched on wcleague.watch.pixellot.tv.
