AppleSox Open Up Six-Game Homestand vs. Sweets

First Pitch: 6:35 p.m.
Park: Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium
Tickets: applesox.com/schedule
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GAME NOTES

Wenatchee Probable Pitcher: Reigning WCL Pitcher Of The Week Evan Canfield toes the rubber for his fourth appearance and third game of the summer... He tossed eight dominant innings last Friday at Kamloops, striking out eight, one off matching his season-high... Canfield finished at 90 pitches in the longest outing of his career and threw 10-or-fewer pitches in five different innings thanks in part to two different double plays... The Bothell native is second in the league with 22 strikeouts and is one-of-five pitchers in the WCL to appear in at least three games and have an ERA under 1.00...

Walla Walla Probable Pitcher Probable Pitcher: Heitaro Hayashi is 0-2 with a 4.00 ERA ahead of his fourth game and start of the summer... He has not pitched more than four innings in any of his starts and is coming off allowing three runs on three hits, two walks and two strikeouts over three innings last Saturday at Yakima Valley...

Last Night: The AppleSox fell behind 6-0 after the first inning and fell at Yakima Valley, 7-6... The loss represented the first series loss for Wenatchee in six played...

Around The Division: Wenatchee is one game ahead of red-hot Bellingham and two head of Edmonton... The Bells won their sixth straight game last night with a 5-1 win against Kamloops and the Riverhawks salvaged a three-game set at Kelowna with a 7-6 win in 10 innings.

Hit Streaks: Luca Boscarino and Cannon Peery extended their hitting streaks to seven games last night at Yakima Valley... Boscarino is batting . (9-for-23) over it with 5 RBI... Peery is hitting .500 (11-for-22) with 9 RBI in his last seven games...

First-Inning Drama: Wenatchee surrendered five runs in the first inning against Yakima Valley on Tuesday and then six more in the opening frame last night... The AppleSox are now being outscored 17-7 in the first inning...

The Century Mark: Evan Canfield and Quincy Vassar enter this weekend nearing 100 strikeouts in their AppleSox career... Vassar is one away from hitting triple digits while Canfield is nine away...

Sixth Straight vs. The South: Tonight marks the AppleSox’ second consecutive series against a South Division team... Wenatchee’s next series against a non-North Division opponent won’t come until July 19-21 vs. Yakima Valley and the AppleSox won’t travel to a South Division team until wrapping up the regular season at Bend Aug. 6-8...

Last Time vs. Walla Walla: The AppleSox have not faced the Sweets since wrapping up the 2022 regular season against each other Aug. 5-7... Evan Canfield tossed five scoreless innings the first night to help the AppleSox clinch a postseason berth and Joichiro Oyama stole four bags over the weekend to break the WCL single-season stolen base record...