SALEM — Prior to Monday night’s game the Aquasox have had their best success of the season against Salem-Keizer, going 4-2 against their fellow West Division opponent.
The positive trend didn’t continue Monday as Everett (13-18) was blasted in a 9-4 road decision to the Volcanoes (11-20).
Salem nearly got all the runs it would need in the bottom of the second inning. Mike Murray hit a lead-off double. After Brett Krill walked, Everett first baseman Jharmidy Dejesus tried to start a double play and force out Krill at second, but his throw was off the mark leaving the bases loaded for the Volcanoes. Stephen Landazuri (3-2) then walked in Murray to put Salem on the board. Brice Cutspec doubled in a pair of runs and then Charles Jones hit a sacrifice fly to put Salem up 4-0.
The Sox got a tough break in the top half of the inning. Jabari Blash walked and advanced to second on a Nathan Melendres groundout. Mike Dowd then hit a sharp ball toward the shortstop that struck Blash on his way to third. Dowd was awarded a single but Blash was called out and Ramon Morla struck out to end the inning.
In the third inning Krill Doubled and Daniel Burkhart hit an RBI single to make the game 5-0 in the Volcanoes favor.
Salem-Keizer chased Landazuri in the fourth inning before he could record an out, making Monday his shortest outing of the year. Landazuri surrendered seven runs, six earned, with four hits and five walks while striking out three. S-K brought eight to the plate in the fourth and scored four more to take a 9-0 edge. Jordan Pries came on in relief for the Frogs and went four innings, giving up two of the fourth-inning runs but no more.
The Volcanoes’ Cameron Lamb, a 6-foot-3 Australian, improved his record to 2-3, going five innings and surrendering just an unearned run on six hits.
The Frogs’ Marcus Littlewood homered for the second straight game and went 3-for-5 on the night. Littlewood came up in the ninth with a chance to hit for the cycle for only the second time in team history, but fell a triple short. His teammates rallied for two runs in the inning however. Jorge Agudelo doubled, Mario Yepez singled and then De Jesus scored them both with a double off the wall. After a pitching change Morla fanned to end the game.
Game two of the three-game series will be today at 6:35 p.m.
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Campos honored by NWL
Everett AquaSox pitcher Jose Campos has been named the Northwest League Pitcher of the Week for July 11-17.
In his one start during that period, Campos pitched six innings, holding the Spokane Indians to just two hits and no runs in Everett’s 8-2 victory Friday. Campos struck out eight. Spokane came into the game averaging nearly 10 hits and six runs per game.
In three starts at hitter friendly Everett Memorial Stadium, Campos has allowed just one earned run — none in his past 15 innings.
Campos (2-2) has pitched the most innings (311/3) for the AquaSox in the 2011 season, and owns the best earned-run average (3.16) among the team’s starting pitchers.
In the Northwest League, his ERA ranks 13th overall and 10th among NWL starters with at least six starts.
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