AquaSox undone by 8 Dust Devils homers<\/p>\n
Published 10:15 pm Wednesday, May 20, 2026<\/p>\n
EVERETT \u2014 The Tri-City Dust Devils hit eight home runs Wednesday night, powering their way past the Everett AquaSox 12-4 at Everett Memorial Stadium in game two of the six-game series.<\/p>\n
Seattle Mariners left-hander Gabe Speier made the start for the AquaSox (21-20), joining the team as part of a major league rehab assignment as he works his way back from left shoulder inflammation. The native of Santa Barbara, California, threw one inning, allowing three runs on three hits (two home runs) while collecting two strikeouts before departing the Northwest League baseball game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt good. Obviously, a little different pitching in a minor league setting, but the arm feels good,\u201d Speier said. \u201cThe body feels good and I can\u2019t complain.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to his next rehab outing, Speier keyed in on wanting to mix in more offspeed pitches after hitting 96 miles per hour on the radar gun with his fastball.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I threw a lot of fastballs today,\u201d said Speier. \u201cMixing in more breaking balls would be a good thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tri-City\u2019s offense cleared the fences multiple times early on, hitting five home runs across the first three innings of the game to take a 7-0 lead. Caleb Bartolero opened with a solo home run on the game\u2019s first pitch, and Juan Flores added a two-run homer to end the first inning\u2019s scoring.<\/p>\n
Aaron Graeber added a solo home run in his first Dust Devils (21-20) at-bat during the next frame, and Johan Macias hit a two-run homer to give Tri-City six runs after two innings. Ending the early home run surge in the top of the third was Flores, who hit his second homer of the game to score the night\u2019s seventh run.<\/p>\n
Ryan Nicholson hit the Dust Devils\u2019 sixth home run of the night in the top of the fifth, providing his team a 9-0 lead. Flores doubled for his third extra-base of the game, allowing Nicholson to hit his third home run of the season. Macias raised his team\u2019s run total into double digits in the next frame, hitting into an RBI groundout, and adding the seventh Tri-City long ball of the night in the top of the seventh was Randy De Jesus, who launched a solo home run to left field to make the lead 11-0.<\/p>\n
Everett found the scoring column in the bottom of the seventh, plating three runs. Luke Stevenson walked and Felnin Celesten doubled to extend his hitting streak to 24 games, allowing Brandon Eike to open the Frogs\u2019 scoring with a sacrifice fly. Contributing the other two runs was Matthew Ellis, who demolished a two-run home run to right field that traveled 425 feet.<\/p>\n
Pinch-hitting in the top of the ninth inning, Jake Munroe belted the Dust Devils\u2019 eighth home run of the game. Munroe\u2019s big swing cleared the right field fence, setting Tri-City up 12-3. Additionally, he was the seventh different Dust Devils player to homer in the game.<\/p>\n
Trailing by nine runs, the AquaSox added their fourth run in the bottom of the ninth as Carlos Jimenez hit into an RBI groundout. The Dust Devils ultimately secured their 12-4 victory, collecting a strikeout to end the game.<\/p>\n
Herald writer Aaron Coe contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AquaSox undone by 8 Dust Devils homers Published 10:15 pm Wednesday, May 20, 2026 EVERETT \u2014 The Tri-City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,35381,620,4,619,65,3235],"class_list":["post-704710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-mariners","tag-baseball","tag-everett-aquasox","tag-mariners","tag-mlb","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattlemariners"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116611669260055371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}