After Saturday night's forgettable loss to the struggling High Desert Mavericks, the Lancaster JetHawks sure aren't.
Perfect at home, that is.
The JetHawks lost their first game at The Hangar, 7-4, in front of 5,388 chilled fans.
Lancaster (12-5) had its five-game winning streak snapped and also dropped to 4-1 on the franchise's initial homestand.
"I guess we weren't going to win them all," JetHawks manager Dave Brundage said.
Despite a brief ninth-inning rally and a good performance by reliever John Thompson, who struck out three of the four batters he faced, there weren't many highlights for the JetHawks.
Actually, there were mostly lowlights.
Lancaster pitchers, second in the California League in ERA, gave up 12 hits.
JetHawks starting pitcher Marino Santana (1-2) gave up nine hits and five earned runs in 5 1/3 innings.
High Desert starter Matt Marenghi, who held the JetHawks to four runs on Monday in the Mavericks' 15-3 loss at Adelanto, was just as effective Saturday.
Marenghi (1-1), a right-hander who played at Stanford, seemingly was on the brink of giving up a big inning but never let the JetHawks put two hits together.
"We just never got it going," said Brundage, who gave the JetHawks a pep talk against Marenghi last week that resulted in a rally. "I needed to have a meeting tonight."
The JetHawks committed three errors and the top three hitters in the lineup went a combined 1-for-12.
"We relied too much on the big inning," Brundage said, referring to Lancaster's win streak that included 25 runs in four games at The Hangar. "Tonight we could never make the plays when we needed to."
The Mavericks knocked Santana out of the game in the fifth.
Fletcher Thompson led off with a double and scored on Chris Kirgan's single to break a 3-3 tie. Santana walked Doug Newstrom and was replaced by Tim Trawick.
Roy Hodge drove in Kirgan on a groundout and Newstrom came around on Ray Suplee's single that bounced off Marquez in right.
Jesus Marquez brought the JetHawks to within two runs in the sixth when he doubled and scored on James Clifford's single to right.
Clifford tried to go to second on the throw home, but he was thrown out when first baseman Kirgan cut off the ball and threw on to shortstop David Lamb, who tagged Clifford out.
High Desert took a 1-0 lead in the first on Lamb's RBI single to the gap in left-center field.
The Mavericks upped the lead to 2-0 in the second on Bryan Bogle's run-scoring double, one of four High Desert doubles.
The JetHawks tied it score in the second with a pair of runs on one hit.
Marquez led off with a walk, and he was balked to second base by Marenghi. Marquez scored an out later on Clifford's bloop single to right.
Clifford stole second, his first steal of the season, and moved to third on a passed ball. He scored on another balk by Marenghi to make it 2-2.
High Desert took a 3-2 lead in the fourth on Bogle's sacrifice fly.
But Lancaster tied the game again in the fourth when Carlos Villalobos singled to lead off and scored two outs later on Jason Cook's RBI single.