EVERETT — Pedro Da Costa Lemos had not even warmed up by the time he had to take the mound at Everett Memorial Stadium on Wednesday.

Everett AquaSox starter Taylor Dollard opened the game with four straight outs against the Eugene Emeralds, but after allowing a full-count walk to infielder Walker Martin, he hurt himself on the first pitch to infielder Hayden Jatczak. Dollard immediately stepped off the mound and took a slow loop around before returning to the bump with both hands on his knees. After a brief meeting on the mound with the coaching staff, the 27-year-old righty exited the game.

All of a sudden, Lemos had to jump in to protect Everett’s 1-0 lead.

“Sometimes it happens,” Lemos said. “As a reliever, we got to be prepared for whatever situation. That’s our job, and that’s what I practice for.”

After a few minutes to throw warm-up pitches from the mound, Lemos got to work. The 23-year-old righty retired the next two batters to end the second, and he carried a combined no-hitter into the fourth as the AquaSox (61-61 overall, 28-28 second-half) gave him plenty of run support en route to an 11-6 win against Eugene (73-48, 31-24).

Relievers Wyatt Lunsford-Shenkman and Calvin Schapira even carried a combined shutout into the ninth inning, but the Emeralds racked up six runs on Jack White to make the game seem closer than it was.

Lemos allowed one hit and one walk to go with four strikeouts in 2 2/3 innings of relief. Lunsford-Shenkman carried that momentum, allowing just one hit in two innings, and Schapira totaled four strikeouts between the seventh and eighth. Even Dollard allowed the lone walk before he exited the game, throwing strikes on 12 of his 19 pitches.

“I think the good stuff was dominating the zone,” Lemos said. “… When I compete and throw down the zone, and know where you want to throw, and just have that exact control, that was the best thing.”

AquaSox manager Ryan Scott did not have an update on the nature of Dollard’s injury, but if serious, it could mark the latest chapter in a brutal string of luck for the 2020 fifth-round pick.

After winning 2022 Texas League Pitcher of the Year with Double-A Arkansas, Dollard pitched just 8 1/3 innings in 2023 with Triple-A Tacoma before a torn labrum forced him to miss the rest of 2023 and all of 2024. After returning to Everett in 2025, Dollard posted a 3.90 ERA across 12 starts and 55 1/3 innings, but that figure bumped up to 5.59 in 93 1/3 innings this season.

While his performance on the mound has been up-and-down this season, teammates and coaches consistently rave about his presence in the clubhouse. Dollard even made it back down to the dugout to watch the rest of the game despite his injury.

“We call him an ’80-grade’ teammate, if you’re talking in the scouting terms,” Scott said. “Because he’s going to be there and he’s going to do everything he can to help the guys that are around him. He’s been a huge asset for our pitching staff this year, and outside of just being able to come out here and give us some good innings all the time, he’s going to help the Colton Shaw’s, the Evan Truitt’s, the Mason Peters’ now. The guys that are kind of going through their first full seasons, maybe, that they might need a veteran presence who’s gone through it before. …

“He’s just a phenomenal, phenomenal teammate, and hoping the best for him going forward.”

The night started out breezy for Dollard. He went three up, three down in the first, and the AquaSox took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the frame with an RBI groundout from infielder Brandon Eike.

Once Lemos took over following Dollard’s injury, he got Jatczak to strike out swinging after inheriting an 0-1 count, and he ultimately got infielder Dalton Wentz to fly out after he fouled off four of the first five pitches to end the frame.

Everett infielder Luis Suisbel led off the bottom of the second with a solo home run to push the lead to 2-0. It marked the 23-year-old Venezuela native’s 40th home run in an AquaSox uniform, and his first since he broke the franchise record on Aug. 21. Cesar Quintas, Carter Dorighi and Carlos Jimenez followed that up with three straight doubles, the last two driving in runs to make it 4-0. A sacrifice fly from Taurek two batters later extended it to 5-0.

“As a teammate, I’m very happy for him,” Jimenez said about Suisbel’s milestone, with translation from Everett outfield coach Edgardo Rivera. “It’s something that he works for. I’m very grateful that I can see him getting that done.”

Lemos pushed a combined no-hitter into the top of the fourth, but Emeralds outfielder Damian Bravo ended it on a full count with two outs. His deep fly ball to right field barely eluded Jimenez’s glove as he made a leaping attempt at the wall, and Bravo got on with a double. Lemos walked the next batter to put two runners on, but he got out of the frame by striking out Jatczak.

The AquaSox scored four more runs in the bottom of the fourth to make it 9-0. Jimenez and Taurek each reached on an infield single, and Eike got hit by a pitch to load the bases. Catcher Matthew Ellis drove two home with a double, and Eike scored when infielder Austin St. Laurent grounded into a fielder’s choice before Suisbel hit an RBI double of his own.

One night after a 10-4 loss, in which Everett struck out 11 times and recorded three of their six hits in the first inning, the righty-heavy lineup found life against another left-hander, Henry Lalane, who allowed six hits and five earned runs in just two innings.

“Cool for us to go out there and kind of grind some at-bats out there in the first inning, go out there and put up another four-spot in the second inning off them,” said Scott, who expressed that the team needed to extend their at-bats more the previous night. “Really, really good at-bats from them in the game tonight to get him out of there, and then continuing that the rest of the game and kind of putting that thing out of reach.”

Ellis brought the lead to double-digits with an RBI groundout in the bottom of the eighth, and St. Laurent pushed it to 11-0 with an RBI single up the middle.

The Emeralds rallied for six runs in the ninth, which would be disastrous in nearly any other instance but only delayed the inevitable on Wednesday. White walked two batters to load the bases, then allowed back-to-back two-run doubles from Wentz and catcher Onil Perez to make it 11-4. Perez later scored on an RBI groundout from designated hitter Jhonny Level, and outfielder Jose Ortiz capped the rally by scoring from third on a wild pitch before White finally got infielder Kaeden Kent to pop out and end the game.

After Vancouver’s 5-3 loss to Spokane, the AquaSox moved to three games behind second place in the Northwest League standings with 10 games left in the regular season. Since the first-place Emeralds already won the first half, the team with the next-best record in the second half will face them in a best-of-five Championship Series.