But as far as streak-snappers go, this one felt pretty good.
Lancaster scored eight times in the last two innings and held on to defeat Rancho Cucamonga 12-10 Monday night in front of a paid attendance of 4,286 at The Epicenter.
"At this point in time . . . we'll take it and run with it," Lancaster manager Dave Brundage said after the JetHawks snapped a four-game losing streak and improved to 19-13. "There's nothing depressing about that win, especially after not playing good baseball over the past four days."
Scot Sealy hit a two-run homer in the eighth to put the JetHawks up 7-5 in a seesaw battle against the Quakes (13-18).
It was Sealy's fifth homer of the season.
"I've been struggling and I hit a couple of line drives at people before that," Sealy said. "I needed that to get my confidence back up."
But it turned out that Lancaster's five-run ninth, highlighted by Carlos Villalobos' two-run single, would turn out to be the difference.
The Quakes scored four times in the bottom of the ninth, highlighted by Juan Melo's two-run double that made it 12-10, before Tom Szimanski struck out John Roberts to end it.
Rancho Cucamonga took a 2-0 lead in the first, marking the third time in the series that the Quakes had scored in the first inning.
With one out, Dickie Woodbridge ran up to bunt a pitch from Lancaster starter Marino Santana and was hit on the thigh.
Some JetHawks, including Brundage, asked home plate umpire Mike Alvarado if Woodbridge had offered on the pitch, which would have made it a strike.
But Alvarado said Woodbridge didn't, and that decision cost the JetHawks a run when Antonio Fernandez hit a home run over the left-field wall.
The JetHawks cut the lead in half in the second.
James Clifford led off with a drive to right that dropped in front of Garry Matthews Jr. for a single. Matthews bobbled the ball and Clifford went to second.
One out later, Jesus Marquez hit a high chopper over Fernandez' head at third base, scoring Clifford and making it 2-1.
Lancaster tied the game in the third when Luis Molina scored from third with two outs on a wild pitch by Quakes starter Ryan Van De Weg.
The Quakes took a 4-2 lead in the fourth, though, on Ben Davis' two-run double that hit off the wall in center field, 400 feet away.
Davis, Rancho Cucamonga's 19year-old designated hitter who was the No. 2 overall draft choice by San Diego in last year's draft, came into the game with a .141 average and five RBI in 21 games.
Van De Weg made another twoout mistake in the fifth, and it cost him the lead.
Marcus Sturdivant led off with a walk and stole second, his first stolen base since April 25 and 11th of the season.
He went to third on a groundout by Jason Cook, but Shane Monahan's fly ball to left wasn't deep enough for Sturdivant to tag up and score.
Clifford came to the plate and fell behind 1-2, but was hit on the leg by a Van De Weg fastball.
Villalobos then doubled with a drive into the right field corner, driving in both runners and tying the game at four.
The Quakes took advantage of wildness by reliever Jeff Pearce in the seventh to load the bases with one out.
Pearce, making his first appearance in Rancho Cucamonga as an opposing player since asking for his release from the Quakes in 1993, walked Davis and John Massarelli before hitting Woodbridge on a 3-0 pitch.
John Thompson replaced Pearce and gave up a sacrifice fly to Fernandez that made it 5-4. Sean Watkins hit a grounder to first baseman Shawn Buhner, who stepped on the bag to end the threat.
Thompson gave up five earned runs in 2 1/3 innings but was able to get his first win of the season. Szimanski's save was his fourth.