AppleSox Face Sweets For Bark In The Park Night
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First Pitch: 5:35 p.m.
Park: Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium
Tickets: applesox.com/schedule
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GAME NOTES
Wenatchee Probable Pitcher: Ryan Martinez makes his 2024 debut after earning All-WCL Honorable Mention honors last summer... The right-hander in the transfer portal from Pacific went 3-2 with a 3.63 ERA in eight games (all starts) for the AppleSox… Martinez struck out 27, allowed 46 hits and walked seven over 39.2 innings... He tossed five-or-more innings six times and tossed the second-most innings of any AppleSox pitcher…
Walla Walla Probable Pitcher: Rex Solle looks to five Walla Walla its first sweep of the summer after the Sweets won their first series of the summer last night... The incoming freshman at UCLA is making his summer debut after recording a 2.08 ERA in 14 games as a senior at Redwood High School in California this spring... Solle struck out 87 hitters and walked 27 over 57.1 innings...
Last Night: The AppleSox suffered their first shutout loss of the summer... It was the first time that they had been shut out since June 16, 2022... Wenatchee had shut out six teams since then... last night was the third time in three seasons under Mitch Darlington that the AppleSox were shut out...
Tied At The Top: The combination of the AppleSox’ loss last night with Bellingham and Edmonton’s victories over Victoria and Kamloops, respectively, makes for a three-way tie atop the North Division... An AppleSox loss today combined with a win by the Bells and/or the Riverhawks would mark the first time this summer that Wenatchee was not in sole possession of or tied for first place... Wenatchee wraps up the first half a week from today at Bellingham...
Struggles At The Plate: The AppleSox went into this series leading the WCL in runs scored while holding the second-best batting average... Not including the four-run, three-hit first inning on Friday, Wenatchee has hit .125 this weekend against Walla Walla.... The AppleSox did draw six walks last night but all of them came while they were down by at least nine runs...
Dougherty Thriving At Home: Aidan Dougherty collected another hit last night to improve his batting average at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium to .556... Dougherty has recorded at least one hit in all six home games that he has played and has a 1.243 OPS in games in Wenatchee...
Six Straight vs. The South: This is 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...
