BOISE, Idaho – The Everett AquaSox are glad to be getting out of Boise.
A thoroughly forgettable series ended on an ugly note for Everett on Friday night as the AquaSox were pummeled by the Boise Hawks 17-5 in Northwest League play.
The loss was Everett’s fourth straight as Boise took four games in the five-game series. The four wins were two more than the Hawks (6-12) had in their previous 13 games.
The Sox (9-9), who came into the series in contention for the West Division lead, now find themselves well behind first-place Salem-Keizer. Everett welcomes the Volcanoes to Everett Memorial Stadium for a three-game series beginning tonight.
Boise pounded out 16 hits – including seven doubles – and scored the game’s first 12 runs. Steve Clevenger went 4-for-5, Kyler Burke went 3-for-4 and Marquez Smith drove in four runs for the Hawks.
Manelik Pimentel hit a tape-measure, two-run homer and Kalian Sams also homered to lead Everett.
The game also included a bench-clearing incident which broke out after the final out was recorded in the bottom of the fifth inning. Everett shortstop Ogui Diaz and Boise catcher Mario Mercedes were the initial antagonists after a hard slide at second.
Boise starting pitcher Alberto Cabrera tossed a gem. The right-hander had a shutout going before being knocked out by Pimentel’s homer in the seventh. In 61/3 innings he gave up five hits, walked none and struck out five.
As for Everett, the trend of starting pitchers struggling with their control continued. This time it was Rob Harmon, who walked five in four innings. He also gave up six hits, leading to six runs. It was the third straight game in which Everett’s starters had more walks than innings pitched.
Harmon, who has struggled with his control all season, saw those demons return in the third. After giving up a leadoff single, Harmon walked the next three batters to force in the game’s first run. A double play scored another run, then Clevenger’s double plated a third as Boise took a 3-0 lead.
The Hawks then doubled their lead in the fourth, all three runs coming with two out and nobody on. Again Harmon helped, issuing a pair of walks. In between Dylan Johnston smacked an RBI double, and Smith later added a two-run double, increasing the lead to 6-0.
Boise then turned it into a rout in the sixth against reliever Philip Roy, piling on six more runs. Josh Donaldson’s two-run double was the biggest blow as the score got ugly at 12-0.
Pimentel ended the shutout bid in the seventh. Sams homered to lead off the eighth and Matt Mangini added a two-run single as Everett made the score more respectable.
But the Hawks got all five of those runs back in the eighth to make it ugly again.
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