The Vancouver Canadians knocked off the Everett AquaSox 6-2 at Nat Bailey Stadium on Tuesday.
The scoring did not begin until the bottom of the fourth inning. That’s when Cutter Coffey belted his first home run as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays organization. The acquisition in the Danny Jansen deal with Boston homered over the left field wall next to the C’s bullpen seating area off Marcelo Perez.
Je’Von Ward singled to center but the Canadians were denied another run when Colin Davis made a diving catch to take away a hit from Nick Goodwin.
Vancouver tacked on more runs in the fifth with a two-out rally. Adrian Pinto singled to center field and scampered home with a headfirst slide on a Jace Bohrofen double down the right field line off Perez. Peyton Williams then crushed one over the right field wall for a two-run homer to up Vancouver’s lead to 4-0. Coffey made it four straight hits with a base knock to right.
Everett would get to Vancouver starter Ryan Watson in the seventh inning. Axel Sánchez began the frame with a single to center field and got to third on a one-out double down the right field line by Colt Emerson. Watson struck out Michael Arroyo for the second out but his next pitch was taken up the middle for a base hit by Jared Sundstrom. That drove inSánchez and Emerson to make it a 4-2 game. Grayson Thurman entered the game and saw Caleb Cali reach base after a fielding error by Pinto at second. The inning would end on a Bill Knight fly out to left.
The Canadians matched those two runs in the bottom of the seventh against Anthony Tomczak. After striking out the side in the sixth, the AquaSox reliever began his second inning of work by walking Brennan Orf. Pinch-runner Marcos De La Rosa had a baserunning adventure after Jay Harry—pinch-hitting for Pinto—was retired on a fly ball to center. De La Rosa had run past second base on the play and had to retouch the second base bag on the way back to first. Fortunately for De La Rosa, he was able to get back safely as the throw from Knight was off the mark. That was a big play as Bohrofen would blast a home run to center field that went off the top of the fence for a two-run shot.
Chris Jefferson took over for Tomczak after Bohrofen’s blast.
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Watson was able to strand a few baserunners in the early going. A one-out single to right field by Arroyo in the first and two-out singles by Freuddy Batista and Sánchez to right and left respectively were stranded in the second inning, which began with a strikeout of Knight.
A two-out knock by Sundstrom in the third and a base hit to center by Batista in the fourth did not amount to anything for Everett despite Watson balking Batista to second and catcher Jacob Sharp misjudging a foul pop-up behind the plate. Watson whiffed Knight again to begin the fourth.
In the fifth, Arroyo doubled to right with two outs and Sundstrom walked but Watson got out of the inning. Coffey threw out Davis from third on a bunt and Watson covered the bag on an Emerson grounder to Williams at first. Cali grounded to third to end the rally.
Watson got his first 1-2-3 inning of the night in the sixth which featured a strikeout of Hunter Fitz-Gerald.
Thurman overcame a Batista one-out walk in the eighth by striking out the side as Fitz-Gerald and Sánchez went down swinging and Davis was caught looking. A slew of defensive changes were made before the inning with Harry taking over at second base for Pinto and Ward replacing Orf in left field. Bohrofen moved from center to right to fill in for Ward while De La Rosa filled in for Bohrofen at center.
Kai Peterson had a three-up, three-down ninth which ended with consecutive Ks of Arroyo looking and Sundstrom swinging.
Bohrofen had Vancouver’s first hit with a single to left field over a leaping Emerson at short. The C’s had a promising rally in the second inning when Ward made it aboard with an infield single to second and Jackson Hornung was hit by a pitch. A 6-4-3 double play ball off the bat of Goodwin and a Sharp fly out to left field stranded Ward at third.
A one-out single to left by Hornung and a one-out infield knock to third by Goodwin in the eighth was spoiled when Jefferson snared a Sharp liner. The AquaSox righty looked to double off Hornung who got back to second but was able to get Goodwin at first for a 1-3 inning-ending double play.
Juaron Watts-Brown will throw the first pitch at 7:05 p.m. on Wednesday. The game will be on CanadiansBaseball.com and MiLB.TV.
Radar Gun Rundown
Ryan Watson was at 77-95 miles per hour with strikeouts of 85, 83, 83 and 94. Grayson Thurman had two strikeouts at 82. Kai Peterson checked in at 85-97 with a strikeout of 94.
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