BOISE, Idaho — The Everett AquaSox couldn’t get out of Boise fast enough.
A forgettable series ended with another forgettable loss Thursday night as the Boise Hawks completed a five-game sweep by thrashing Everett 12-4 in Northwest League baseball action.
The five-game sweep was the first for the Hawks against a Western Division opponent since the 2004 season.
Boise pounded out 14 hits against five Everett pitchers, with Carlos Perez going 4-for-6 and Dwayne Kemp going 3-for-4. They each drove in three runs. The margin could have been worse as Everett also committed five errors and the Hawks left 14 men on base. For the Hawks (24-13), it was their 11th victory in their past 12 games.
Travis Howell and Tyson Gillies each had two hits to lead Everett (15-22).
It was just another ugly loss in what was an ugly series for Everett. The Sox were outscored 51-24 in the series and managed to lose games both by getting blown out and by losing leads. The Sox hope to get back on track at home tonight against Spokane. The game is the opener of a five-game series.
It was an inauspicious return to the rotation for Everett starter Bobby LaFromboise. LaFromboise, who missed his previous two turns because of a tired arm, showed plenty of rust, giving up six runs in 11⁄3 innings.
Boise put Everett in a big hole early with five runs in the bottom of the first. LaFromboise struggled with his control early. He hit two batters and a walk loaded the bases. Then a two-run single by Perez and a three-run double by Kemp did the damage.
The Hawks scored a sixth run in the second when Josh Harrison tripled off the left-field wall and scored when Welington Dotel’s throw got away at third base. Boise scored again in the third on Ryan Sontag’s sacrifice fly, making it 7-0.
Everett got itself back in the game in the fourth. Howell hit an RBI double to right, Dotel lined a two-run triple to the left-center gap, and Gillies hit an RBI single to right, cutting the deficit to 7-4.
Boise got a run back in the sixth on Perez’s RBI single, making it 8-4. Then the Hawks turned the game into a rout in the eighth with four more runs, Michael Brenley’s two-run double being the biggest blow.
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