By CHRIS BRANAM
Staff Writer
SAN JOSE - Not much was being said by anybody in the visitors' clubhouse in San Jose's Municipal Stadium late Friday night.
What had happened on the field pretty much spoke for itself, and the Lancaster JetHawks didn't want to stick around to talk about it.
The JetHawks rushed to the team bus after a lackluster 4-0 loss to San Jose in front of 2,289 fans.
They probably didn't want to dwell on the two errors that were committed that helped the Giants take an early lead, or the mental mistakes that also didn't help much.
Or the two hits they got on their way to being shutout for the fourth time this season.
"I don't know if they're in a funk," Lancaster manager Dave Brundage said of his players. "(But the mistakes) are a concern of mine. If we're going to continue to not play fundamentally sound defense . . . that is a concern."
The Giants scored in the first three innings - and all the runs came with two outs against Lancaster's Greg Wooten, who threw a complete-game victory against San Jose last week but gave up six hits in the first four innings and dropped to 4-2.
In the first, the Giants' all-star catcher Craig Mayes had a two-out single though the left side that scored Jon Sbrocco and Derek Reid.
The JetHawks' first fielding mistake allowed the Giants to take a 3-0 lead in the second.
After Wilson Delgado had a lead off single, Todd Wilson hit an easy double-play ground ball to shortstop Mike Lanza. Lanza, however, bobbled the ball and was only able to step on second for a force out.
That play proved to be important. Wilson eventually scored with two outs on Tim Garland's single.
An error that did manage to get on the Lancaster linescore, however, led to another San Jose run in the third.
Jason Cook, starting at third base, booted a grounder by Reid to start the Giants' rally. Wooten did his job again, getting the dangerous Jesus Ibarra (.500, 19-for-38 against Lancaster this year) to hit a double-play grounder to second baseman Chris Dean.
Dean didn't make a throw to second, however, as Reid ran right by him. He ended up throwing to first to get Ibarra.
Reid scored an out later on Delgado's single up the middle.
"In this ballpark you've got to scratch for every run you get," Brundage said. "It's not like in Lancaster, where you can make mistakes and be able to come back. `Woot' could have easily been even-steven."
The mistakes were magnified because of the strong outing by the Giants' Fultz.
After he gave up a double to Jesus Marquez, Fultz retired the next 12 JetHawks hitters until he walked Carlos Villalobos in the fifth.
But he walked Marquez to lead off the seventh and gave up Lancaster's first hit since the first, a line drive single into right field by Scott Smith, who extended his hitting streak to 12 games.
San Jose manager Carlos Lezcano immediately pulled Fultz, a left-hander who was traded from the San Francisco organization to Minnesota in 1993 and then was reacquired by the Giants in April.
Fultz' replacement, Jeff Martin, was able to get Villalobos to ground out with runners on first and third to keep Lancaster from scoring. Fultz walked two and struck out two.
San Jose's Mike Villano came on to retire the JetHawks in order in the ninth, with two strikeouts.
"That was some pretty good pitching tonight," Brundage said of the Giants. "They threw some pretty good arms at us."
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