EVERETT — The Everett AquaSox needed a game like this.
One night after they were shut out twice and mustered just five hits in a doubleheader, the Frogs pounded out 17 hits to knock off the Spokane Indians 10-3 before 2,998 fans on a damp Saturday night at Everett Memorial Stadium.
Everett (12-11) had lost four of its last five and six of its last eight. The AquaSox have now defeated the Indians (10-13) three times in the teams’ four matchups this season.
Nick Zammarelli was 4-for-4 with three RBI, while Eric Filia had three hits to pace the AquaSox. Donnie Walton, Kyle Lewis and Nick Thurman each had two hits and drove in two runs. Lewis and Walton both homered.
The Frogs never trailed as they scored the game’s first nine runs.
Zammarellli drove home Lewis for a 1-0 lead in the top of the first. The AquaSox plated three more with some clutch two-out hitting in the second as Walton, Lewis and Zammarelli had RBI singles.
Walton added his first professional home run to lead off the fifth, and the Frogs took advantage of two errors and a two-run double by Thurman to push the lead to 8-0.
Zammarelli tacked on another RBI in the fifth as his sacrifice fly scored Lewis to make it 9-0.
The Indians broke up the shutout against Everett reliever Lane Ratliff on Seth Spivey’s two-out RBI single in the top of the seventh, but Everett immediately answered in the bottom of the inning with a solo home run by Lewis, his third of the season.
Back-to-back RBI doubles by Luis Terrero and Elio Castillo cut the deficit to 10-3 in the eighth.
The Indians pounded out 11 hits themselves, but stranded 11 runners as they never really threatened. Castillo had four hits while Alex Kowalczyk had two.
Everett stranded 15 runners. Reigning Northwest League Pitcher of the Week Elliot Surrey earned the win with two innings of scoreless relief.
The teams square off at 4 today. Felix Hernandez will make a rehab start for the AquaSox. He will be opposed by Spokane’s Reid Anderson (0-0, 4.00 ERA).
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