Final Road Trip Of Regular Season Takes Place In Kelowna

APPLESOX VS. FALCONS
MONDAY, AUG. 4, 2025

First Pitch: 6:35 p.m.
Park: Elks Stadium
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Wenatchee Probable Pitcher: Dylan Schlenger (0-0, 2.57 ERA, 4 K, 4 BB, 7 H, 7 IP)… The right-hander from Woodway, Wash. makes his fourth start in as many appearances looking to build off back-to-back three-inning efforts at Victoria July 25 and at Port Angeles July 30… Schlenger’s lone home outing came July 22 when he walked two and struck out two to fire a scoreless first inning… He has surpassed 40 pitches in each of his last two outings, including tossing a season-high 47 against the HarbourCats... The incoming junior at Eastern Illinois spent the previous two springs at Columbia Basin, where he went a combined 8-7 with a 4.21 ERA, 87 strikeouts and 49 walks over 113.1 innings in 27 games (19 starts)… Schlenger earned Second Team All-NWAC East Region honors this spring after recording a 3.51 ERA and firing at least five innings in 13-of-15 games…

Kelowna Probable Pitcher: Ethan Coronel (0-2, 5.06 ERA, 12 K, 3 BB, 17 H, 10.2 IP)… The Woodlands, Texas native makes his second start and sixth appearance of the summer in Kelowna’s final series of the summer… Coronel is making his first start since surrendering five runs (three earned) on seven hits, a walk and three strikeouts in three innings July 19 in a 9-2 loss to Port Angeles… The right-hander at Sam Houston State tossed a season-high four innings in relief against Edmonton July 26 in his most recent outing… Coronel surrendered three runs (all earned) on seven hits, no walks and four strikeouts… He appeared in eight games out of the bullpen this spring and recorded a 17.18 ERA with 12 hits, 10 walks and eight strikeouts over 7.1 innings…

Last Night: The AppleSox dropped the rubber match of a three-game set at home to Bellingham, 10-5... The Bells broke a 3-3 tie with a four-run seventh to take two-of-three games in the weekend series... Seven-of-nine AppleSox position players recorded at least one hit. Cade Martinez led the way with a 3-for-4 effort that included a double, a triple and a walk… Izzy Madariaga went 2-for-4 with a double and a walk, Evan Cloyd finished 2-for-3 with two walks and Noah Fields was 2-for-4... Bellingham and Wenatchee split the season series, 3-3…

Season Series vs. Kelowna: The AppleSox are 2-4 vs. the Falcons this season and have dropped each of the last four meetings... Wenatchee won two-of-three games at home June 3-5 via back-to-back shutouts to open the series... Kelowna swept a three-game set at Elks Stadium July 4-6… The AppleSox are 112-56 all-time vs. the Falcons (playoffs included), with both teams tracing their origins back to 2000… Wenatchee last lost a season series to Kelowna in 2018 by dropping four-of-six meetings…

The Falcons: Are tied with Port Angeles for last in the North Division with a 19-32 overall record… Went a division-worst 9-18 in the first half but are 10-14 in the second half, only two games behind fourth-place Wenatchee… Were swept by Edmonton on the road over the weekend… Were shut out in the series by a combined score of 31-0 and have been blanked eight times this season… Are last in the WCL in batting average (.237), on-base percentage (.336) and slugging percentage (.301)…

Canadian Conundrum: The AppleSox are 18-18 against Canadian opponents in 2025… Wenatchee opened the summer 6-3 against their friends from the North but are 12-15 since June 20… The AppleSox have been swept three times this season, all of which have been by Canadian teams. Wenatchee has never had a losing record against teams north of the border in the three previous seasons under head coach Mitch Darlington, going 63-25 from 2022-24 (17-6 in 2022, 23-9 in 2023 and 23-10 in 2024)… Elks Stadium has also proven to be a tough venue for the AppleSox as of late with Wenatchee dropping four of its last six series here since 2018 and holding a 9-9 record in Kelowna in that span…

Concluding In Canada: This is the third time in the last seven seasons and the fourth time in 25 seasons that the Wenatchee has wrapped up the regular season with a road series at Kelowna... The AppleSox have lost the series in all three occasions by only taking the middle game of a series on Aug. 10, 2013 and then only winning the first game of three-game sets Aug. 6, 2018 and Aug. 5, 2018… Wenatchee suffered heartbreak in each of its two previous trips to Kelowna by failing to clinch a playoff spot with a sweep in 2018 and then falling short of winning the second half in 2023 by also needing a sweep... The AppleSox have also wrapped up the regular season against the Falcons three times at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium with series sweeps July 22-24, 2001, July 19-21, 2002 and Aug. 3-5, 2007…

Postseason Ticket Punched: For the 17th time in franchise history the AppleSox are competing in postseason play… Wenatchee has now qualified for the WCL Playoffs for a fourth straight season, the second-longest streak in franchise history behind a 12-year streak from 2002-13… The postseason begins this Friday when the AppleSox will host either the Bellingham Bells, the Victoria HarbourCats or the Edmonton Riverhawks at 6:35 Friday night at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium in Game 1 of the best-of-three North Division Series... Game 2 and, if necessary, Game 3 will be at the opposing team’s ballpark Saturday and Sunday, respectively… Wenatchee can finish with the third seed in the North Division at best and cannot win the second half title…

Chasing 30: The AppleSox are two wins away from reaching 30 victories in league play in a regular season for the third straight season and the seventh time in franchise history... In addition to the 37-win 2023 season and the 35-win 2024 campaign, the AppleSox also won 30 games in 2014, 37 games in 2012, 39 games in 2011 and 34 games in 2009…

Road Woes: The AppleSox are 9-15 away from Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium this summer and have won four-of-eight road series… Wenatchee has won at least 10 road games in each of the previous seven seasons but failure to win once in this series would result in the first single-digit win total on the road since a 9-18 2016…Their last team to make the playoffs despite a sub-.500 road record was the 2022 team (12-15)… The AppleSox are 299-265 all time in road regular season games in league play and 53-52 the last four seasons under head coach Mitch Darlington…

Multi-Hit Martinez: AppleSox infielder Cade Martinez has recorded 19 multi-hit games this summer, tied for the fifth-most in regular season league play in single-season franchise history... He is tied with Aidan Dougherty (2024), Aiva Arquette (2022), Connor McCord (2018), Keston Hiura (2015), Ty Jackson (2014) and Brett Stephens (2013) and needs to record multiple hits in each game of this series to tie Mitchell Gunsolus (2012) and Joichiro Oyama (2022) for the AppleSox’ single-season record... Martinez was the AppleSox’ 2025 recipient of the seventh annual Tommy Watanabe Award in honor of his passion and respect for the game of baseball as well as all of those who are involved in it… The 2025 WCL All-Star leads the AppleSox with 57 hits, a figure that is tied with Erik Munzer (2011) for the 16th-most in club single-season history…

Stone Cold Cloyd: AppleSox first baseman Evan Cloyd has been hit by a pitch eight times in only 15 games... His 15 hit by pitches over the last two summers are tied for fourth-most in an AppleSox career with Marshall Bratton (2001-03)… Cloyd is three away from moving into a tie with Jordan Rathbone (2015-16, 18) for third place and 10 away from tying Hawkins Gebbers (2006-08) for the most in club history... He has been hit by a pitch 30 times over the last four summers in the West Coast League, including tying for seventh in the WCL with 11 hit by pitches in 2023 with Portland... Cloyd broke Cal State Bakersfield and the Big West’s single-season hit by pitch records with 33 this spring while finishing with the second-most in the entire NCAA…

Canfield Cooks: AppleSox right-hander Evan Canfield continues to etch his name in the team history books in his fourth season in Wenatchee... In addition joining John Gebbers (2000-03) and Jack DeDonato (2021-24) as the only players to suit up in four different regular seasons with the team, Canfield also became the AppleSox all-time leader in games pitched with his first appearance of the summer, July 19 vs. Nanaimo... His 33 appearances are four more than Tyler Kane (2012-13), whom he entered this season tied with… Canfield has also moved into third in AppleSox history with 117 strikeouts, surpassing Hunter Boyd (110, 2017-18) and just eight away from his pitching coach and former teammate Quincy Vassar (125, 2022-24)... Canfield is also chasing Vassar for the most innings pitched in AppleSox history, sitting seventh all time with 101.1 innings and 30.1 back of Vassar... His 12 starts are the third-most by an AppleSox pitcher in the last four seasons under head coach Mitch Darlington… Canfield moved out of a tie with Jack Moffitt (2022-23) by allowing one run and striking out four in four innings last Friday vs. Bellingham and he only trails Vassar (25) and Ryan Martinez (14, 2023-24)…