AppleSox Host Pippins On BNCW Night
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First Pitch: 7:05 p.m.
Park: Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium
Tickets: applesox.com/schedule
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Wenatchee Probable Pitcher: Ryan Martinez makes his fourth start of the summer tonight and his first since July 7 at Nanaimo... Martinez fired a scoreless third inning against the Cascade Collegiate League Showcase team in non-league action last Sunday in his most recent outing... Martinez has no record with a 3.95 ERA, seven strikeouts, two walks and 18 hits over 13.2 innings... He earned All-WCL Honorable Mention in 2023 and has fired at least five innings in eight-of-11 starts with the AppleSox over the last two summers... Martinez transferred from Pacific to Utah Tech last week...
Yakima Valley Probable Pitcher: Ethan Salscheider makes his second start vs. the AppleSox this season after allowing two runs over six innings on June 18... He struck out three, walked two and allowed six hits to earn his most recent victory... Salscheider is 3-3 with a 3.23 ERA, 26 strikeouts, 12 walks and 44 hits over 39 innings in seven games... The southpaw from Hawaii-Hilo is 5-8 with a 4.03 ERA in 20 games over the last three summers with Yakima Valley...
Season Series vs. Yakima Valley: Wenatchee dropped two-of-three games against Yakima Valley June 18-20 at Yakima County Stadium... The AppleSox are 2-4 vs. South Division opponents and 21-9 against North Division opponents... After this series Wenatchee does not face another South Division foe until Aug. 6-8 when it wraps up the regular season at Bend...
Last Weekend: The AppleSox swept both non-league games against the Cascade Collegiate League Showcase team, first with a 7-0 win last Saturday and a 21-5 triumph the next day... Wenatchee finished the season 3-1 in non-league action...
The Pippins: Are 3.5 games back of the Ridgefield Raptors for the final playoff spot, the second wild card in the South... Are four games back of the Raptors for the best record in the South in the second half and the second seed in the divisional playoffs... Dropped two-of-three games against Corvallis July 10-11 in their three most recent WCL games... Defeated the CCL last Friday, split the next two days against the Northwest Star Academy and then defeated the CCL again on Monday...
Drafted: Two AppleSox players were selected in the 2024 MLB Draft earlier this week... 2022 alum Matt Halbach was selected in the 10th Round by the Chicago Cubs and 2024 player Jace Hampson was selected in the 18th Round by the New York Mets... Halbach earned All-WCL Honorable Mention after hitting .329 with 17 multi-hit games two summers ago... Hampson played three games in WCL play and two non-league games this summer but signed with the Mets...
2024 WCL All-Stars: Garrett Ahern, Evan Canfield, Jonathan Fitz, Max Hartman and Quincy Vassar all represented the AppleSox as 2024 WCL All-Stars this past Wednesday at Joe Martin Field... Ahern helped turn a double play in a scoreless fourth inning, Vassar struck out in a scoreless sixth and Hartman walked and stole second in the third...
Top Offense: The AppleSox enter the post-All-Star Break with the best batting average (.287) and the most runs scored (262) in the WCL... Wenatchee has scored 34 more runs than the next-closest team (Portland) and faces the team with the second-worst ERA in the WCL in Yakima Valley (5.45)...
First Half Champs: For the first time since the two-half playoff berths began being awarded in 2016 the AppleSox have won the North Division first half title and have locked up home-field advantage as the top seed in the first round of the playoffs… This is the 16th playoff berth in franchise history and the fourth in the last five seasons… Wenatchee had to wait for the result of Edmonton's game on Monday before officially claiming the title… The AppleSox and the Riverhawks both finished with 18-9 records in the first half but Wenatchee (+37) held a better run differential than the Riverhawks (+35)…
Stretch Run: Only 18 games remain in the regular season and the AppleSox are still pushing to lock up home-field advantage for the North Division Championship Game and the West Coast League Championship Game, if they can reach them... Wenatchee’s 23-13 mark is currently tops in the entire North Division and would earn them home-field advantage for the North Division Championship Game if the season ended today and they reached it... The AppleSox have the third-best record in the WCL behind Corvallis (28-8) and Portland (26-9)...
