The team with the prettiest uniforms in all of the Northwest League (and Jeff Fassaro as their pitching coach) was in town tonight. Their uniforms didn't help them as the Aquasox won another game...
The weather in Shoreline was hit and sunny - we had the air conditioning on during the trip to Everett. But in Everett clouds had piled in off the Sound and jackets were a comfort right from the first pitch.
The Aquasox got off to a quick start with Terry Serrano opening the game with a solid single to left off of Juan Serrano. Serrano vs. Serrano. Robert Anston then hit a perfect hit and run grounder to where the shortstop should have been, except he was heading to second base as Serrano was running. Then a walk to Kevin Mailloux (after getting behind in the count - he did a good job to get on base) loaded the bases. Kevin Rivers then hit a single to right and Christopher Husby - the rightfielder for Boise - threw the ball back over the general area of the mound and Serrano the pitcher managed to catch it and keep the runners from taking advantage of the poor throw. (It turns out that Christopher Husby is a converted pitcher tying his hand at playing the outfield. He's a big guy - 6'7" - but he also struck out 4 times (all swinging!) tonight, so not sure about his conversion to a hitter...)
Then, with men on first and second and Hawkins Gebbers at bat, a pair of passed balls scored one and move the other to third base where he scored on a sacrifice fly to right (with, you guessed it, a poor throw from the Husby - high this time). That box on my scorecard, was a real mess with all the activity!
A single by Evan Sharpley was erased by a 5-4-3 double play and the first inning was finally over.
Austin Hudson was on the mound for the Aquasox and had an 89mph fastball and generally kept the Hawks in check until the fifth inning when he gave up two runs before being pulled from the game with 2 outs.
The fifth inning was where Hudson walked catcher Micah Gibbs to lead off the inning (after hitting Gibbs with a pitch in the third inning) - Gibbs was batting .094 and hadn't had a hit since June! And he ends up being hit by a pitch and walking twice in this game! YOW!
Not a lot more to report as the Aquasox managed to protect their lead with Jorden Merry getting the win in relief (6 strikeouts and 2 walks in 3 1/3 innings with a top speed of 91mph) and Jarett Atardd pitching the ninth inning. Merry and Atardd are new to the team (four Aquasox pitchers have recently been sent to Clinton (story here) and we got a few replacements).
Various and Sundry: Robbie Anston made a very nice running catch in the 5th inning. Jimmy Jacquot tried to score from second on a single to right and was thrown out by the previously wild-armed Husby in a very close play. But Husby made up for it in the 8th when he missed the cutoff man and allowed Rivers to take second on what should have been a single (the throw did keep Kevin Mailloux from scoring and he was eventually stranded at third with the bases loaded).
Fun game.
Here's the box score.
Here's the Herald story.
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