So far it's working for the Lancaster JetHawks, who snapped a fourgame losing streak with a 13-4 win over Visalia Monday night in front of a paid attendance of 3,937 at The Hangar.
With Greg Wooten making his first start in the California League, the JetHawks scored five runs in two separate innings and piled up 18 hits.
Both big innings were capped by two-run home runs by Doug Carroll, who now has three in six games after a promotion from Wisconsin of the Midwest League.
"I'm seeing the ball pretty good," Carroll said. "I feel like I've come in and hit well so I can stay in the lineup."
Every starter had at least one hit and the JetHawks avoided a series sweep and improved to 2-4 in the second half. The Oaks dropped to 4-2.
The JetHawks had a seasonhigh 21 hits and scored 16 runs in Trey Moore's debut June 8, and they gave Wooten the same treatment.
Wooten (1-0) wasn't spectacular but he was steady in his Lancaster debut.
He retired seven of the first nine Oaks he faced, including the side in order in the second.
The 6-foot-7 right-hander out of Portland State gave up run-scoring doubles to Malvin DeJesus in the third and Del Marine in the sixth but pitched like he should with a lead - he only walked two.
He also got out of a bases-loaded jam in the fourth by getting former Antelope Valley High standout Jeremy Herider to ground into a force play.
"After I got the big lead," Wooten said, "I was pretty much throwing fastballs.
"This team is great - they score a lot of runs."
Wooten struck out four and gave up seven hits on 99 pitches in six innings before he gave way to another new pitcher, right-hander Eric Clifford. His strong start also gave the JetHawks' depleted bullpen a rest.
The JetHawks blew the game open with a five-run second against the Oaks' best pitcher, Takahisa Hoshiba, who entered the game with the league's secondbest ERA (3.11).
Hoshiba, a 24-year-old righthander who pitched for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Pacific League last year, gave up four hits and was betrayed by his defense.
Dusty Wathan led off with an infield single, and one out later, second baseman Chris Lemonis booted Jason Cook's double-play grounder.
Carlos Villalobos singled to right to load the bases, and Jesus Marquez followed with his secondstraight run-scoring single.
The hot-hitting Scott Smith (.333, three homers as a JetHawk) followed that with a grounder that third baseman Bo Durkac picked up and threw on to Lemonis at second for a force while Cook scored to make it 4-0.
Lemonis threw wildly to first base for his second error of the inning, and 17th of the season, and Villalobos came home to make it 5-0.
Carroll capped the scoring by belting his 10th homer of the season, and second for Lancaster, that made it 7-0.
Hoshiba had given up three hits and two runs in the first. He was visibly tired by the fifth and came out after back-to-back two-out doubles by Cook and Villalobos increased the Lancaster lead to 8-1.
Hoshiba gave up 13 hits and struck out four.
His replacement in the fifth, Pete Southall, a side-armer whom opponents are hitting .376 against coming into the game, wasn't much better.
The first three batters he faced got hits - Marquez with an RBI double (his third hit of the game), Smith with an RBI single and Carroll ripped his second homer of the game, a towering drive over the manual scoreboard in right that made it 12-1.
The JetHawks made it 13-2 in the sixth on Villalobos' RBI single, his fourth it of the game, that scored Shawn Buhner.