AppleSox Go For Road Series Win vs. HarbourCats

First Pitch: 6:35 p.m.
Park: Royal Athletic Park
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GAME NOTES

Wenatchee Probable Pitcher: Sam Round makes his first start of the summer in league play after firing two innings in a non-league start on Monday... Round redshirted this spring at Gonzaga but started five of the seven games that he pitched in for Wenatchee last summer... The right-hander went 2-0 with a 3.66 ERA, 30 strikeouts, 21 hits and 13 walks over 27 innings... Round started Game 1 of the North Division Series against Victoria and surrendered three runs (two earned) on two walks and one hit in two-thirds of an inning...

Victoria Probable Pitcher: Malik Harris heads to the bump for a second time this season after firing four shutout innings at Kamloops June 2... Harris struck out four, walked one and allowed two hits... He went 0-2 with a 7.52 ERA, 16 strikeouts, 17 walks and 25 hits over 20.1 innings in 12 games at Memphis as a freshman...

Last Night: The AppleSox defeated 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...

Extra Innings: The 12-inning affair was the longest game between Wenatchee and Victoria... The AppleSox improved to 3-3 in extra-inning games against the HarbourCats... Wenatchee went 4-1 in extra-inning games last season...

Punchouts: The AppleSox pitching staff matched a franchise record with 17 strikeouts last night... Evan Canfield led the way with nine punchouts in five innings before Carter Seely struck out six in five shutout innings of relief and then Carson Boesel punched out two in as many innings... Wenatchee last achieved the feat on Aug. 16, 2010 in Game 2 of the WCL Championship Series against the Bend Elks... Marco Gonzales struck out 11 in 5.1 innings while fellow future big-leaguer Zach Weiss punched out one in an inning of relief... The AppleSox lost that game but won the WCL Championship the next day...

Gianni’s Flair For The Dramatic: AppleSox utilityman Antonio Gianni’s game-winning hit last night was his third and latest dramatic moment of the 2024 season... It was his second two-out game-winning single after recording one in the seventh on Opening Night against Port Angeles... Gianni also hit the AppleSox’ first home run of the season after a leadoff shot to begin the second inning on June 1...

Two-Out Action: The AppleSox scored the game-winning run with two outs and each of the HarbourCats runs came with two down... Victoria batted 3-for-14 (.214) with two outs but also drew two walks and a hit by pitch with two down... Wenatchee has excelled in two-out RISP opportunities, hitting .361 in those situations through seven games...

Rare Loss At Home: After setting a WCL record with a 25-2 mark at home last summer the HarbourCats lost their first home game of the new season... Postseason and non-league games included, last night was only the sixth time in the last 37 games at Royal Athletic Park that the HarbourCats failed to pick up a victory...