Sox Win Second Home Series of the Season
July 31, 2011 - Northwest League (NWL1)
Everett AquaSox News Release
EVERETT, Wash. -- The Everett AquaSox (3-2, 19-24) won their third straight game and second home series of the year in unconventional fashion, outlasting the Boise Hawks (2-3, 19-24) in a game that saw the two teams combine for eight errors and more than half of the 15 runs scored in the game being unearned.
Sox starter Jordan Shipers (1-4, 4.42 ERA) collected his first victory of his minor league career by allowing only one earned run, but five total runs, in five innings of work. During the game, Shipers moved into a tie for second most strikeouts on the team with 42 on the season.
The Sox scored the first four runs of the game in the bottom of the first inning without recording a single hit, capitalizing on four walks by Hawks starter Su-Min Jung and scoring three of the four runs on back-to-back errors by Boise shortstop Dustin Harrington and the fourth run on a fielder's choice by catcher Mike Dowd.
After the Frogs added a fifth run on an RBI triple by second baseman Patrick Brady, Boise turned the tides and capitalized on a pair of walks by Sox starter Jordan Shipers and two errors in the fourth and fifth innings to pull even at 5-5, tying the game on an RBI single by first baseman Paul Hoilman. Eight of the first ten runs scored in the game were unearned.
Everett responded to the Boise comeback quickly by scoring three runs in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI single by shortstop Luis Gonzalez and a two-RBI single by pinch-hitter Jorge Agudelo to put Shipers in a position for his first win.
The Hawks tightened the game to 8-7 with a pair of solo home runs in the seventh and eighth innings by designated hitter Rafael Lopez and right-fielder Reggie Golden, but Everett reliever Ben Versnik retired four of the five batters he faced to close out the Frogs.
The AquaSox will look to notch their second four-game winning streak of the season when they send out right-hander Jose Campos (2-3, 2.98 ERA) against Hawks righty Austin Reed (0-2, 6.62 ERA) at 1:05 p.m.
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