Swooning JetHawks Crash and Burn, 11-0

The JetHawks have been struggling to get their hitting, pitching and defense in sync lately. It finally happened on Wednesday night.

Everything went wrong.

The JetHawks lost, 11-0, to the Lake Elsinore Storm at the Hangar before a quiet crowd of 3,394 which saw the following lowlights:

JetHawk hitters managed just six hits and were shut out for the first time this season. The pitchers walked 12 batters and hit one, with seven of those batters scoring. The defense made three more errors, leading to six unearned runs.

The JetHawks (19-15) have lost six of seven and eight of 11.

“We didn’t get any pitching, any hitting or any defense,” Manager Dave Brundage said. “You can’t pin it on one thing. We just have to look forward to [today.]”

Through most of the JetHawks’ slide, they had decent starting pitching. But Chris Beck was not sharp against the Storm.

Beck (4-2) walked seven batters and three of them scored. He fell behind in the count often and threw 104 pitches in 4 2/3 innings. He was pulled after Bret Hemphill’s ground-rule double drove in a run to give the Storm a 4-0 lead.

“That little rectangular thing, the ball just wasn’t going across it very much,” Beck said of the plate. “I just couldn’t find the zone.”

John Daniels promptly gave up another ground-rule double, to Paul Failla, making it 6-0.

Beck was charged with all six runs, though only three were earned because the runs in the fifth came after shortstop Luis Molina bobbled a sharp one-hopper for his ninth error.

Third baseman Carlos Villalobos made an error in the ninth. JetHawk infielders have made 41 errors in 34 games.

The Storm added two runs in the eighth after catcher Dusty Wathan dropped a throw that would have been an out at the plate.

Lake Elsinore’s Brian Cooper, a right-hander taken by the Angels out of USC in the fourth round of last year’s draft, struck out seven and walked two.

The only time the JetHawks had a runner in scoring position was when Jesus Marquez led off the second with a triple, but Cooper struck out Carlos Villalobos, Scot Sealy and Shawn Buhner.

Cooper spaced out the hits, with the JetHawks getting more than one in an inning only once.

In the sixth, back-to-back singles were spoiled because Marcus Sturdivant tried to stretch the first one into a double and was thrown out.

Lake Elsinore 11, JetHawks 0

Lake Elsinore: 030 030 023 -- 11 8 0

JetHawks: 000 000 000 -- 0 6 3

Cooper and Hemphill; Beck, Daniels (5), Thompson (9) and Wathan.

W--Cooper (3-2).L--Beck (4-2).

2B: LE--Dauphin 2, Urso, Hemphill, Failla. 3B: J--Marquez.

Records: Lake Elsinore 19-13; JetHawks 19-15.