AppleSox Go For Series Win At Kamloops

First Pitch: 6:35 p.m.
Park: Norbrock Stadium
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GAME NOTES

Wenatchee Probable Pitcher: Quincy Vassar makes his third start, all of which will have come on the road... He is 0-1 with a 4.82 ERA, 7 strikeouts, 10 hits and four walks over 9.1 innings... Vassar started on three days‘ rest last Sunday and surrendered one run in four innings at Victoria...

Kamloops Probable Pitcher: Casper Rammeloo makes his first start and third appearance of the summer tonight... He struck out one and tossed a scoreless ninth inning on June 5 in a 7-1 win over Bellingham... Rammelloo debuted June 2 and suffered the loss after giving up one unearned run in the ninth at home...

Last Night: Evan Canfield surrendered one unearned run and struck out eight over eight innings to lead the AppleSox to a 2-1 win… His career-long start was the longest outing by an AppleSox starter since July 4, 2022 when Garrett Gores fired eight innings at Port Angeles... Hunter friedberg reached on an error and scored on another in the fifth and then drove in the game-winning run with a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the sixth inning...

Coming For the Record: Canfield leads the WCL with 22 through his first three games to move into third place in team history (92)... Both of them are chasing Hunter Boyd, who struck out 110 hitters from 2017-18... With four strikeouts against Victoria on Sunday Vassar moved into sole possession of the second-most strikeouts in AppleSox history with 93 over the last three summers...

Peery Shows Off The Legs: Cannon Peery stole three bags last night to move into third on the team in stolen bases... He has four over the last two games and is two bag of tying Max Hartman for the

The NorthPaws: Are on a five-game losing streak... Are tied for last in the North Division... Will have played nine of their first 12 games of the summer at home by the end of this series... Have scored seven runs over their last five games...

Quiet Bats: Wenatchee has also struggled to score runs lately with only 13 over their last four games... In three of the last four games the AppleSox have scored two runs or less but still won two of those games... Despite this, Wenatchee is still third in the WCL in runs scored (93) and on base plus slugging percentage (.740)...

Sacrifice Bunts: Elijah Pelayo put down his team-leading third sacrifice bunt of the summer last night in the fifth inning... The AppleSox‘ single-season records for sacrifice bunts is 10 by Trent Bridges in 2010...

Oh Canada: Wenatchee is 43-16 against Canadian teams (postseason included) in three seasons under head coach Mitch Darlington… The AppleSox went 23-9 against their northern neighbors last year, went 17-6 in 2022 and are off to a 3-1 start this summer… Wenatchee swept the season series against Kamloops last season and leads the all-time series, 14-1…