Hinchliffe gave up six hits, struck out six and walked two in eight innings, matching his longest start of the year. A two-out RBI single by Cliff Anderson in the eighth broke up the shutout, and John Thompson gave up a solo home run to Ervane Wingate in the ninth but came back to strike out Scott Richardson to end the game and pick up his 12th save. Lancaster manager Dave Brundage said he remembers a time when the JetHawks didn't have a starter get past the third inning in three-straight games. Anytime you get your starter into the eighth inning, you're doing a pretty damn good job. Dean, who hadn't hit a home run in his first 34 games with the JetHawks, drove the first pitch he saw from Oropesa in the fourth over the left-field fence for his third homer in five games.
Baseball is all about streaks, anyway.
Dean also scored the JetHawks' first run in the second. He reached second when left fielder Scott Richardson dropped his fly ball and scored one out later on Dusty Wathan's single. The JetHawks scored twice more in the fourth to take a 4-0 lead, although the rally started painfully. With two outs, Oropesa hit Wathan in the left elbow with a pitch. Wathan had to leave the game in the fifth and the elbow was swollen after the game.