Vogelbach Lifts Hawks over Everett
Published on August 11, 2012 under Northwest League (NWL1)
Boise Hawks News Release
EVERETT, Wash. - Dan Vogelbach went 3-for-4 with two homers and five RBI, helping the Boise Hawks to an 11-8 victory over the Everett Aquasox, before 2,661 fans at Everett Memorial Stadium.
Vogelbach recorded his second-straight multi-homer game and has now hit a home run in five-straight games, dating back to Sunday in Spokane. He now is tied for the league lead in long balls and has hit 15 homer this season (including his homers in the Arizona League).
The win for the Hawks capped a 6-2 road trip with their fourth win in five nights in Everett, the first half champ of the West Divison.
Vogelbach hit a two-run homer in the first to give Boise a quick 2-0 lead, but the Aquasox answered in the bottom of the inning on a Mike Zunino RBI double. The Hawks would plate six in the second to take the lead for good, as Marco Hernandez led off with his fourth homer of the season, with the inning capped by a long three-run blast from Vogelbach.
Everett would close the margin to 8-6 in the third on a two-run Ketel Marte triple, before Boise extended the lead with two in the fourth - including a Jeimer Candelario RBI double.
The Aquasox would threaten in the late innings, putting runners at second and third in the eighth, but Nathan Dorris got Brock Hebert to strikeout and Jamodrick McGruder to fly out to end the threat. Dorris would put runners at first and second in the ninth, but struck out Patrick Kivlehan and got Alfredo Morales to ground out to lock up his second save.
Rafael Diplan allowed a run in two innings of relief to pick up the win, with Candelario going 4-for-5 with two RBI for the Hawks. Hernandez and Stephen Bruno each had two hits in the 14-hit Boise attack. Marte went 3-for-4 in the loss for Everett, who had 15 hits, but stranded 16 runners.
The Hawks return home tomorrow to open a series with Salem-Keizer, with Cubs supplemental first-round pick Pierce Johnson making his Hawks' debut, opposite the Volcanoes' Joan Gregorio at 7:15 p.m.
NOTES - Vogelbach's two-homer game was the third by a Boise batter in the last six days (Lance Rymel on Sunday in Spokane, Vogelbach last night), after going nearly six years without such a game...Hernandez extended his hit streak to 15 games with his second inning homer...Candelario became the seventh Hawk this season to record a four-hit game...starter Ian Dickson went just three innings, allowing six runs on six hits, walking three and striking four...Johnson made two appearances with the Mesa Cubs, tossing three shutout innings...the Hawks have now won 7-of-9 on the road after starting the season 2-16.
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