EUGENE – It was another picture-perfect night for Kai-Wei Teng as he led the Eugene Emeralds (64-48) to their fifth straight victory with a career-high thirteen strikeouts over six innings of work.
Teng was on fire as the right-hander allowed just three hits, two walks and one earned run for the visiting Everett AquaSox (60-51). The Ems pitching dominated the game for a final of 4-1 in front of 2,200 fans at PK Park.
Prominent Mariners prospect Neolvi Marte continued his strong start in High-A ball by scoring the game’s first run, doubling on a 2-2 count to lead off the second and then later scoring from third on a Matt Scheffler sacrifice fly to right field to put the AquaSox up first, 1-0.
Everett’s lead lasted only a matter of minutes, though, as the Emeralds leveled the score at 1-1 in the bottom of the second after Marco Luciano tripled to the left-center field gap and then came into score shortly thereafter on a wild pitch by Frogs right-hander Adam Hill.
It stayed a 1-1 game all the way until the seventh as both starting pitchers, Teng for Eugene and Adam Hill for Everett, kept each opposing offense largely in check.
In that seventh, the Emeralds broke through to take their first lead of the game in unlikely (yet unsurprising) circumstances. Down to their final out in the inning and with nobody on base, Ricardo Genovés singles on a ground ball to left, and Franklin Labour followed by battling to work a walk on a full count.
One pitch later, Carter Aldrete grounded what likely should have been the inning-ending out to Everett third baseman Justin Lavey, but Lavey bobbled the ball and ultimately was unable to make a play at any base as Aldrete reached safely to load the bases for Ismael Munguia.
Munguia, one of the hottest hitters in all of Minor League Baseball (batting .488 in last 19 games played), looped a double the opposite way into right field to score both Genovés from third and Labour from second giving Eugene their first lead of the game, 3-1.
Jairo Pomares added some insurance for Eugene in the eighth, launching a Jarod Bayless offering over the right field fence for a solo blast, his fifth homer in twenty games as an Emerald.
The three-run cushion proved more than enough for the backend of the bullpen as Chris Wright notched his second save of the series and his league-leading sixteenth save of the season to wrap Eugene’s fifth straight win, a 4-1 victory over the AquaSox to clinch the series win.
With Spokane losing to the Vancouver Canadians again on Thursday night, the Emeralds gained ground on the second place Indians and now have a 1.5 game lead atop the High-A West standings. Meanwhile, Everett falls 3.5 games behind the Emeralds with eight games to go in the regular season.
The Eugene Emeralds wrap the regular season’s home schedule with a doubleheader on Friday against the AquaSox. First pitch for Game One on Friday is scheduled for 4:05pm PST while first pitch for Game Two is tentatively scheduled for approximately thirty minutes following the conclusion of Game One. Both games are scheduled to be seven innings.
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