Guess they never got that memo.
The JetHawks got another strong outing from their pitching staff, highlighted by eight strong innings from Greg Wooten, as they beat High Desert 7-1 Saturday night in front of a paid attendance of 2,838.
Lancaster manager Dave Brundage praised the effort of the Lancaster pitchers, who have given up two runs in the first games of the series.
"These guys have done a nice job of preparing themselves for this (the Mavericks') lineup," he said. "That's what I like."
Wooten barely broke a sweat through the first four innings, retiring the first 13 Mavericks on 39 pitches.
He was especially effective with runners on base.
In the first, Doug Newstrom led off with a single but was picked off by the right-handed Wooten.
High Desert's Chris Bryant reached on an error by third baseman Carlos Villalobos in the second but was erased on a double play, one of Wooten's 11 groundball outs.
Only one Maverick reached third base off Wooten before High Desert broke up the shutout in the eighth.
That was in the fourth, when Mike Berry singled and advanced to second on an error by left fielder Doug Carroll.
Berry went to third on a fly out but was stranded when Wooten struck out Bryan Bogle.
Wooten (2-0) was helped by his defense in the fifth and sixth; the JetHawks had outfield assists in both innings.
"I got lucky a couple times," Wooten said. "I just had a lot of things happen."
The Mavericks put runners on first and second with two outs in the fifth, and Jesus Garcia singled to right.
David Lamb was thrown out at home by Jesus Marquez to end the inning.
"That was probably the turning point," Brundage said.
Newstrom singled to lead off the sixth, but was thrown out on the tail end of a double play by center fielder Shane Monahan on Monahan's running catch of Mike Berry's sinking liner.
Wooten gave up eight hits, walked two and struck out three.
The JetHawks scored twice against Mavericks starter Francisco Saneaux in the sixth to take a 3-0 lead.
Monahan led off with a single and scored on Jason Cook's 19th double of the season, a drive into the right-field corner.
Cook also scored the JetHawks' first run of the game.
With one out in the first, he drew the first of five walks given up by Saneaux and scored on Jesus Marquez's broken-bat double down the right-field line.
Carroll's 11th homer, and fourth as a JetHawk, with one out in the eighth off relief pitcher Steve Montgomery gave Lancaster a 4-0 lead.
After the Mavericks cut into the lead on Berry's RBI double in the eighth, Lancaster came right back in the ninth.
Reliever Ned Darley gave up three runs as the first four JetHawks reached base before he was replaced.
Darley walked Shawn Buhner to open the inning and Andy Augustine singled to right. The ball got by right fielder Ray Suplee, and Buhner scored from first to make it 5-1.
Augustine scored on Mike Lanza's fifth triple of the season to make it 6-1.
Monahan drilled a single up the middle, his third hit of the game, to score Lanza and the JetHawks had blown the game open, 7-1.
Left-hander Trey Moore (2-1, 1.61) will start for the JetHawks today at 5:05 p.m. against righthander Matt Marenghi (7-7, 4.73) at Maverick Stadium in the series finale.