AppleSox Continue Road Trip At Victoria
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The Wenatchee AppleSox take on the Victoria HarbourCats tonight at 6:35 at Royal Athletic Park.
Wenatchee is hoping to even up the weekend set and force a rubber match on Sunday in the series finale. Victoria won the weekend opener with an 8-4 victory last night. The AppleSox scored four runs in the top of the fourth before giving up a five-spot in the bottom half, all with two outs.
The AppleSox are still ahead of the HarbourCats in the standings but only by a half game. Wenatchee’s six-game winning streak came to an end last night and it suffered its first loss of the second half to drop to 6-1 while Victoria is in second at 7-3. The AppleSox are also a half-a-game ahead of the HarbourCats for the top overall record in the North Division with 25-9 and 26-11 records, respectively.
Despite the loss, Wenatchee got two more solid games from Mason Strong and Carson Ohland to continue their respective hot stretches. Strong picked up a base hit in each of his first three at-bats, including driving in the first run of the game with a single in the fifth inning. Strong extended his hitting streak to eight games with his fourth consecutive multi-hit game. He went 3-for-5 with his second three-hit effort of the season. Strong is batting .359 overall and .485 (16-for-33) during his streak. Ohland recorded his fourth multi-hit game in the last five with a 2-for-4 day. He is hitting .500 (10-for-20) with 3 RBI in the last five games to boost his overall batting average to .295.
The AppleSox look to slow down Hudson Shupe tonight. He leads the West Coast League with a .420 batting average and is the only qualified hitter in the WCL batting .400-or-better. Shupe extended his hitting streak to seven games with a 1-for-4 game last night on an RBI single in the fifth to plate the first of five runs in the inning. He is hitting .345 (10-for-29) during this streak and the HarbourCats are 6-1 during it.
Bryce Johnson returns to the rotation to make his third start of the summer tonight. The incoming freshman at Oregon State tossed the final four innings in the relief of the AppleSox’ 7-6 12-inning walkoff victory against Kamloops on July 7. Johnson struck out a season-high eight hitters while only allow two unearned runs on four hits and four walks. He is 2-1 with a 4.90 ERA, 13 strikeouts, six walks and 14 hits over 11 innings in three games (two starts).
Levi Abbott gets the ball for Victoria for his fifth start of the summer. He is 0-1 with a 3.76 ERA, 14 strikeouts, nine walks and 15 hits over 14.1 innings in six games (four starts). Abbott suffered the loss the last time out by allowing one run on four hits, two walks and one strikeout in four innings against Yakima Valley on July 7. The junior at Canisius has pitched against the AppleSox once, tossing two scoreless innings on June 9.
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 FM in 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.
