Mavericks Light Up the Night at Hangar

The first bad news for the JetHawks, as it turned out, came at about 7 p.m. on Saturday, when the power came on at the Hangar.

So instead of getting a night off, as they would have if the blackout had lasted another 20 minutes, they played.

Too bad for them.

Starting pitcher Marino Santana allowed seven runs in one-plus inning of work and the JetHawks lost, 15-4, before 5,256 quiet fans at the Hangar.

Through five innings, each High Desert starter had at least one hit. They had batted around in two of the innings.

The Mavericks scored two runs in the first, one on Chris Kirgan’s home run, his league-leading 25th, and the 22nd allowed by Santana, which puts Santana only four behind the California League lead in that dubious category.

In the second, Santana, who picked up his fourth consecutive loss, allowed the first five hitters to reach base, two on walks and three on singles, before he was sent to the showers in the shortest outing from a JetHawk starter this season.

Right-handed reliever John Daniels allowed two more runs to score on a single and a walk before finally getting the first out of the inning.

By the time the top of the second was over--about 30 minutes after it began--the Mavericks had scored eight times and led, 10-0.

In the fourth, the JetHawks scored four runs, three on Jesus Marquez’s team-leading 17th homer.

Daniels was charged with five runs in 2 1/3 innings for his worst outing of the season.

Left-hander Chad Soden was the JetHawks’ first effective pitcher of the game. After giving up two hits and a walk to load the bases in the fifth, he got a popup to get out of the inning and then blanked the Mavericks in the sixth and seventh. Todd Niemeier pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth.