AppleSox Return Home For $2 Off Tuesday vs. Bells
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First Pitch: 6:35 p.m.
Park: Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium
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Wenatchee Probable Pitcher: Jack DeDonato makes his second start of the summer after earning a no-decision last Tuesday at Port Angeles... He allowed two runs (one earned) while striking out two and allowing eight hits over 4.1 innings... DeDonato had a 2.23 ERA with 41 strikeouts, 26 hits and 15 walks over 48.1 innings in 12 games (10 starts) this past spring at Lower Columbia...
Bellingham Probable Pitcher: Joshua Flaugher gets the ball for his first start of the summer and second appearance after firing three scoreless innings against Kamloops June 5... He punched out four-of-10 batters while walking one and not allowing any hits... Flaugher was 0-3 with a 12.23 ERA, 16 strikeouts, 24 hits and 22 walks over 17.2 innings in 18 games (two starts) this spring at Texas A&M Corpus Christi...
The Bells: Have won two of their first three series of the summer... Earned two walkoff wins against Edmonton in the season-opening series before dropping the first two games of a road trip to Kamloops... Had a three-game win streak snapped on Sunday against Ridgefield...
Last Weekend: The AppleSox took two-of-three games against the HarbourCats, 3-2, in 12 innings in their first extra-inning game of the season... Antonio Gianni delivered the game-winning hit with a two-out RBI single in the 12th inning to give Wenatchee its only lead of the game...
Hot Start: For the ninth time in franchise history the AppleSox have begun a season 7-2 or better... This is the second consecutive season starting 7-2 after last achieving it in 2012... Wenatchee, Corvallis (7-1) and Portland (6-1) are the only three teams with two-or-fewer losses...
Coming For the Record: With four strikeouts against Victoria on Sunday Quincy Vassar moved into sole possession of the second-most strikeouts in AppleSox history with 93 over the last three summers... Evan Canfield has 14 through his first two games to move into eighth place in team history (84)... Both of them are chasing Hunter Boyd, who struck out 110 hitters in the 2017-18 seasons...
Two-Out Action: The AppleSox surrendered 16 runs over the weekend and 14 of them came with two outs... Wenatchee scored four of its five runs with two outs on Sunday... As a team the AppleSox are batting .306 with runners in scoring position and two outs while the Bells are batting .216 in those situations...
Transactions: The AppleSox will look a little different from the team that returned from a six-game road trip on Sunday... Garrett Ahern, Max Clark, Jonathan Fitz, Hunter Friedberg, JD Goodcase, Jayden Holloway, Tristan LaMaison, Andrew Monson and Cannon Peery look to make their season debuts during this series against Bellingham... Ten-game contract players Ethan Buckley, Harrison Clark, Damon Gaither, Alex Greb, Ethan Hubbell, Jack Johnson and Drew Welk have all been released...
