And you thought the fireworks display the Bakersfield Blaze had prepared for Wednesday night had come a day early.
Crack! Boom! Bam!
But those weren't fireworks. They were the sounds of the Lancaster JetHawks' bats connecting with pitches in the third inning Tuesday night.
The JetHawks, already leading the California League in team batting average, pounded out 15 more hits, including five-straight extrabase-hits in a six-run third on the way to a 9-8 victory.
Despite a three-run homer by Alex Cabrera in the ninth, the JetHawks (8-6) won their ninth in 11 games against the co-op Blaze (2-12) in front of 658 at Sam Lynn Ballpark.
The JetHawks scored four runs on eight hits in five innings against Arffa at The Hangar last week, and they were more rough with him this time.
After going relatively quietly in the first two innings, six-straight JetHawks reached against Arffa with one out in the third.
Jason Cook walked, and went home on Carlos Villalobos' double into the right-field corner.
Jesus Marquez doubled home Villalobos to make it 2-0, and Scott Smith hit a drive off the fence in center field near the 324foot sign that scored Marquez.
Scot Sealy then did Smith one better - clearing the wall in straightaway center that made it 5-0.
The homer, Sealy's eighth, was similar to the one he hit in the season opener here, the first homer in JetHawks history.
Shawn Buhner capped the rally with his second homer of the year, also to center, that made it 6-0.
Arffa (3-0) ended up throwing 44 pitches in the inning, which turned out to be his last. He was replaced by Bob Oldham to start the fourth.
The JetHawks almost batted around against Oldham in the fourth and scored two runs and had the bases loaded twice.
Mike Lanza walked to lead off the inning and went to second on Jason Cook's single.
Both came home on Villalobos' second double in two innings - this time to the gap in right-center field that made it 8-1.
Two more JetHawks reached against Oldham with two outs, but Doug Carroll grounded out to end the threat.
In between the eight-consecutive runs scored by the JetHawks, the Blaze scored two runs against Lancaster starter Brett Hinchliffe on solo homers.
Josh Watts hit his fourth of the season, and second homer in as many nights, in the first and Chris Paxton hit his eighth of the year to lead off the fourth.
Despite those hits, and Todd Johnson's double down the leftfield line in the fourth, Hinchliffe was in control early on.
He allowed one other hit - a single by Mauricio Gonzalez in the third - and struck out three through the fourth.
But the Blaze nicked him for an unearned run in the fourth when Watts scored from second with two outs when Cook dropped a pop fly and the lead was cut to 8-3.
The game became interesting in the sixth.
The first four Bakersfield batters singled against Hinchliffe, with Alex Cabrera scoring on Ryan Hendricks' base hit to left that made it 8-4.
With the bases still loaded, Gonzalez hit a sacrifice fly to left that drove in Johnson, and the JetHawks' lead was cut to three runs, 8-5.
It could have been worse for Hinchliffe in the sixth, but he struck out Kirk Kinard with the bases loaded to end the inning.