EVERETT — Slow starts had spelled doom for the Everett AquaSox in their series with the visiting Salem-Keizer Volcanoes.
On Monday the Frogs didn’t give the Volcanoes a chance in a 9-5 win in the five-game series finale before 1,589 fans at Everett Memorial Stadium.
The win snapped a four-game losing streak for the Frogs (10-16) and ended a four-game winning streak for Salem-Keizer (12-14).
The AquaSox jumped all over Salem-Keizer starter Alejandro De La Rosa in the bottom of the first. Chris Torres led off with a single and scored when Joseph Rosa launched a two-run home run into the grassy berm beyond the right-field fence.
Evan White made it back-to-back when he blasted his third homer of the year 430 feet to straight-away center field, and Eugene Helder singled and later came home on a double play grounder as Everett took a 4-0 lead after one inning.
Everett tacked on single runs in the second and third. Austin Grebeck walked to lead off the second and scored on a White sacrifice fly, and Onil Pena hit an opposite-field solo homer to right in the third.
Solo home runs from Logan Baldwin in the fourth and Orlando Garcia in the sixth cut Everett’s lead to 6-2.
But the Frogs scored three more times in the bottom of the sixth thanks to four walks and a costly Salem-Keizer error.
Those runs came in handy as a two-out error in the ninth led to three unearned runs for Salem-Keizer in the ninth before David Ellingson induced a game-ending lineout to right-fielder Grebeck.
Rosa, Helder, Adams and Pena all had two hits for the AquaSox.
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