AppleSox Face Pippins For Mid-Week Road Series

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

Wenatchee Probable Pitcher: Jack DeDonato makes his third start of the summer and takes a 0.87 ERA into tonight‘s game... He allowed one unearned run in six innings last Tuesday vs. Bellingham... The Mercer Island native struck out four, walked two and allowed three hits... DeDonato has a 3.97 ERA with 27 strikeouts, 22 walks and 31 hits over 34 innings in 16 games with the AppleSox the last four seasons...

Yakima Valley Probable Pitcher: Ethan Salscheider is is 2-1 with a 2.64 ERA prior to his fourth start of the summer... He has tossed at least five innings in every start and is coming off a season-best seven innings last Wednesday at Ridgefield when he allowed three runs (two earned) on four hits, two walks and five strikeouts... The three-year member of the Pippins has a career 4.13 ERA with 46 strikeouts, 29 walks and 81 hits over 69.2 innings in 16 games (13 starts)... The three-year member of the Pippins has a career 4.13 ERA with 46 strikeouts, 29 walks and 81 hits over 69.2 innings in 16 games (13 starts)...

Last Night: The AppleSox fell to the DubSea Fish Sticks, 5-4, in non-league play last night... Wenatchee dropped to 1-1 in non-league games... Jayden Holloway went 2-for-4 with an RBI...

The Pippins: Beat Walla Walla, 9-2, in the rubber match last night... Led 7-0 after the first two innings... Are about to play their second series of the summer against a team with a winning record (Corvallis June 7-9)...

Streaking: The AppleSox are looking to extend their WCL winning streak to six games tonight... Wenatchee swept Kamloops this past weekend and previously took the last two games of last week’s home series with Bellingham... The AppleSox’ 12-3 start is tied for the second-best in franchise history in the first 15 league games of a season...

Hitters Hit: Three of the top hitters in the WCL are in tonight’s game... Pippins outfield Preston Allen leads the WCL with 22 hits and is eighth in batting average at .365... AppleSox outfielders Aidan Dougherty and Max Hartman are also among the WCL leaders as they are tied with each other and two others for the third-most hits (20) and the 11th-best batting average (.350)...

Scoring At Will: The AppleSox scored 30 runs this past weekend against Kamloops, their second-most in a three-game series to the 35 that they scored opening weekend vs. Port Angeles... Wenatchee is second in the WCL in runs scored (106) and has nine players in the Top 10 in the WCL in runs scored in Max Hartman (17, T-2nd), Aidan Dougherty (14, T-5th) and Kade Benavidez (12, 9th)...

Pitcher Of The Week: Evan Canfield is the latest recipient of the West Coast League’s Pitcher Of The Week honor after tossing eight dominant innings on June 14 at Kamloops... He struck out eight, one off matching his season-high, while also recording the longest outing of his career... Canfield finished at 90 pitches and threw 10-or-fewer pitches in five different innings thanks in part to two different double plays... The Bothell native leads the league with 22 strikeouts and is one-of-seven pitchers in the WCL to appear in at least three games and have an ERA under 1.00...

First Time, Long Time: The AppleSox and the Pippins have not faced each other since Aug. 2-4, 2022... Wenatchee dropped two-of-three games in that series with both losses coming by one run while taking the middle game thanks to Jack DeDonato only allowing one run in five innings of relief to earn the victory...

Pippins-AppleSox Connections: Pippins head coach Kyle Krustangel held the same role with the AppleSox from 2017-19 and held an 84-78 mark with a playoff berth in 2019... Yakima Valley pitcher Lee Souza recorded a 5.31 ERA in 11 games with Wenatchee in 2022... AppleSox utilityman Aidan Dougherty appeared in two WCL games and two non-league games for the Pippins in late July 2022...