The Vancouver Canadians were dumped by the Everett AquaSox 9-2 at Funko Field on Friday.
The AquaSox jumped on C’s starter Chris McElvain for three runs in the bottom of the first inning. After Brock Rodden struck out, Victor Labrada doubled to left and came around to score on consecutive base hits by Josh Hood to center and Jared Sundstrom to left after the ball deflected off Nick Goodwin at third. Sundstrom stole second like Hood did earlier in the frame and Bill Knight brought them home with a two-out base hit up the middle. Knight swiped second before McElvain struck out Caleb Cali.
The Canadians got one run back against Frogs starter Marcelo Perez in the top of the second. Jamari Baylor got aboard on a fielding error at first by Gabriel Moncada. A wild pitch and a base knock to left by Jeff Wehler brought home Baylor but Wehler was thrown out on a 7-4 play at second.
Everett went back at it again against McElvain in the bottom of the second. Freuddy Batista began the frame with a single to center field. A wild pitch, a Rodden one-out infleld single to first that Peyton Williams could not come up with and a Roden stolen base put runners at second and third. McElvain struck out Mocanda and Labrada before and after Rodden’s single but a passed ball by Jackson Hornung resulted in Batista crossing the plate. Hood singled to left to drive in Rodden. Hood swiped second, went to third on a wild pitch and scored on another Sundstrom RBI single to left. Sundstrom also pilfered second base before McElvain fanned R.J. Schreck to strike out the side.
Three consecutive doubles to right by Moncada, Rodden and Labrada with the latter gaining two runs batted in to begin the fourth ended the night for McElvain. Alex Amalfi uncorked a wild pitch before a run-scoring groundout to short by Hood scored Labrada.
The final run of the game belonged to Vancouver as Wehler turned on a 3-0 pitch by Chris Jefferson to clear the fence in right-center for a home run in the top of the eighth.
C-Notes
Amalfi stranded a Knight leadoff double at third in the fifth and a Hood two-out extra-base knock in the sixth. He struck out Rodden to begin the sixth.
Naswell Paulino had a three-up, three-down seventh before escaping a bases-loaded jam in the eighth. Moncada doubled to right and Rodden singled to short before Paulino got two outs, including a strikeout of Hood. Sundstrom walked to load the bases before retiring Schreck on a fly ball to right.
Hornung was shaken up by a foul ball in the bottom of the eighth but he remained in the game.
The C’s only had one runner reach base in innings three through five and that was a Goodwin single to third with one out in the third.
Estiven Machado singled to right to start the sixth but Perez got the next three hitters to end his outing.
Hood robbed Williams of a hit as he lined out to short on what looked like a heat-seeking missile in shallow-right field. That helped Alan Saathoff completed a perfect seventh inning.
After Wehler’s homer in the eighth, Machado was hit by a pitch and Brown walked with one out but Hood dove to his right to snare a liner from Goodwin to rob him of a hit to end the rally.
Baylor flared a single to right with two outs in the ninth off Shaddon Peavyhouse before being forced out at second on a Wehler 5-4 fielder’s choice to end the game.
2023-2024 C’s catcher Kekai Rios is on rehab assignment with Dunedin and has two RBI over two games. Rios only played two games for the C’s this season before getting injured in a base running mishap at The Nat.
Ryan Jennings will look to get Monty’s Mounties back on the horse on Saturday. The game can be heard on CanadiansBaseball.com and seen on MiLB.TV.
A belated thank you to Everett AquaSox Media Relations Director Mike MacCulloch for the press pass to Wednesday’s game and to play-by-play announcer/game host Steve Willits for the hospitality.
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