AppleSox Shock Pippins with Extra-Inning Win
July 19, 2014 - West Coast League (WCL)
Yakima Valley Pippins News Release
YAKIMA, Wash. - Thursday, the Yakima Valley Pippins dealt with one kind of tough loss, falling 11-1 at the hands of the Wenatchee Applesox. Friday, the Pippins discovered a different kind of disappointment, as the Applesox won by a final score of 7-4 in 11 innings.
The first four innings displayed an exhilarating pitcher's duel between Pippins starter Eli Morgan and Applesox hurler Ian Buckles. They kept the game scoreless, while combining to allow just four hits in that span.
In the 5 th inning, though, the bats started to come alive for both sides. The Applesox (18-17) got to Morgan, getting seven straight hitters aboard and scoring four times to take a 4-0 lead.
Ryan Yamane got the Pippins (21-14) on the board in the bottom of the 5 th, singling in a run to make it 4-1. In the 6 th, Vince Fernandez hit his fifth home run of the season to pull the Pippins within one run at 4-3.
After reliever Brandon Williams kept the Applesox scoreless in both the 6 th and the 7 th, the Pippins tied the game in the bottom of the 7 th, as Justin Jacobs singled home JC Snyder to make it 4-4.
The pitcher's duel that was present early in the game returned in the late innings, as Yakima Valley relievers Kenny Rosenberg and Beau Kerns kept the Applesox scoreless through the 10 th, while Wenatchee had Nathan Hadley and Trenton Brooks keep the Pippins off the board.
Wenatchee finally broke through in the 11 th against Kerns. After a one-out single for Tyler Frost, AJ Alcantara brought him home with a suicide squeeze to give the Applesox a lead. They would add to it later in the inning on a couple errors by Vince Fernandez and Taylor Snyder to make it 7-4 Applesox.
Despite getting the leadoff man aboard in the bottom of the 11 th, Brooks retired the next three to close out the victory and get the Applesox the series win. It is only the third time in the last 11 series that the Pippins have not won at least two games in a three-game set.
Yakima Valley, which is now just three games up on both Wenatchee and Walla Walla, looks to get a game back in the WCL East Division and avoid its first sweep of the year Saturday night at 7:05 p.m.
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