JETHAWKS COME OUT SWINGING JETHAWKS 13, L. ELSINORE 5.Byline: Gideon Rubin Staff Writer LANCASTER - On what was heralded as ``Buck the System Day'' at Lancaster Municipal Stadium, the JetHawks bucked a trend. With promotional $1 reserved seats, parking, hot dogs and drinks, etc., offered to entice fans to call in sick for a rare weekday Hangar matinee, the JetHawks' offense bounced back from two consecutive unproductive games (both losses) with a 14-hit performance Thursday in a 13-5 victory over the Lake Elsinore Storm The Lake Elsinore Storm are a minor league baseball team in Lake Elsinore, California, USA. They are a "high-A" class team in the California League, and are a farm team of the San Diego Padres. in front of 1,324. Lancaster (5-3) was led by Neb Brown, who went 5 for 6 with a homer and five RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in , and Jamie D'Antona, who was 3 for 5 with a homer and five RBI. The JetHawks, who led the league with a .308 batting average batting average n. Baseball A measure of a batter's performance obtained by dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat, not including walks. Noun 1. going into Thursday, had a total of 13 hits and five runs and were 1 for 11 with runners in scoring position In the sport of baseball, a baserunner is said to be in scoring position when he is on second or third base. The distinction between being on first base and second or third base is that a runner on first can usually only score if the batter hits an extra base hit, while a runner on in their previous two games. They were 6 for 11 in that category Thursday. ``If you get into a pattern where you're not hitting with runners in scoring position and not hitting period, then you start getting into bad habits and bad trends and you get in a rut, and the sooner you can get out of it, the better'' Brown said. --Note: Tonight's game at Rancho Cucamonga Rancho Cucamonga (răn`chō k  'kəmäng`gə), city (1990 pop. 101,409), San Bernardino co., S Calif. will be the first televised JetHawks game in franchise history. It can be seen throughout most of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, on KVMD-Channel 31 starting at 7 p.m. --Matchup: Left-hander Keith Whatley (0-1, 5.06 ERA) will pitch for the JetHawks against Quakes right-hander Steve Shell (0-0, 5.40) at 7:15 tonight. Gideon Rubin (818) 713-3607 gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): box Box: MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT |
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