EVERETT — When Charlie Pagliarini stepped to the plate in the bottom of the eighth inning, the crowd at Funko Field could sense a big play coming.

The Everett AquaSox second baseman had hit the first of back-to-back homers along with third baseman Luis Suisbel in the seventh to cut the deficit to 4-3 against the Spokane Indians on Saturday, and Pagliarini was batting with runners on the corners and two outs.

The first pitch from Indians reliever Fidel Ulloa went up by Pagliarini’s face, but the 24-year-old from Trumbull, Conn. pulled his head away in time. He watched the second pitch breeze outside the zone to make it a 2-0 count.

With an ideal hitter’s count, Pagliarini caught the third pitch inside and lined a rope in the air along the first base line. If it landed fair, the game woul

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