SPOKANE – The hits came for the Everett AquaSox, but unfortunately the runs didn’t follow.
The AquaSox recorded eight hits but scored just once in a 4-1 loss to the Spokane Indians Wednesday night at Avista Stadium in Spokane.
Everett (14-22) left seven men on base – all in the final four innings – and has dropped four of its past five games.
Working on three days rest – and coming off his worst outing of the summer – AquaSox starter Edward Parades (3-3) went seven innings, allowing four runs on seven hits.
Parades gave up five runs in 32/3 innings in a loss to Boise on July 21.
The left-hander lost control in the sixth inning when he allowed the first five Spokane hitters to get on base – and three of them to come around and score.
Parades hit two batters in the inning, walking another before getting left fielder Steve Marquardt to ground into one of Everett’s four double plays in the game.
Spokane starting pitcher, Evan Reed, a third-round pick out of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, struck out six AquaSox batters in three hitless innings.
He was relieved by Mike Kirkman (1-4), who followed Reed by throwing two more shutout innings and allowing only one hit.
Everett would nearly tie the score in the top of the sixth, putting runners on first and second with two outs.
But Wellington Dotel was thrown out at the plate by Marquardt while trying to score from second on a Gregory Halman single to left.
Everett got its lone run in the ninth when Halman scored from third on an error by Indians second baseman Renny Osuna with two outs in the ninth inning.
AquaSox third baseman Manelik Pimentel extended his hitting streak to seven games and Dotel led the Sox with two hits.
This was the first meeting of the season between the East division Indians and the AquaSox.
They two teams play the second of their five-game series tonight at 6:30 p.m.
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