Except the victory.
Despite hitting two homers in the eighth inning, turning a two-run deficit into a two-run lead, the JetHawks were beaten by the Ports for the seventh-straight time, 10-9, in front of an Independence Day crowd of 6,778 - the largest of the season.
"I think anybody would have sat there and said we should have won that game," JetHawks manager Dave Brundage said. "We just couldn't get the out when it counted."
The JetHawks (9-7) and Ports (9-7) both experienced highs and lows in the later innings. Both teams saw relievers blow leads, starting with the Ports' Luis Salazar.
Salazar came on in the eighth with one on and the Ports holding a 7-5 lead. He gave up a two-run homer to Dusty Wathan that tied the game, and two batters later, Shane Monahan had what he thought was going to be the game-winning hit, a two-run homer over the scoreboard in right field.
However, JetHawks reliever John Thompson (1-4) couldn't hold the lead.
He gave up a three-run homer to Stockton's Mike Rennhack, who had four hits, in the ninth as the Ports retook the lead.
It was Thompson's second-straight outing in which he gave up a three-run homer in the ninth.
The JetHawks loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth against Stockton's Horacio Estrada, capped by one of the strangest plays of the season.
With runners and first and second and one out, Carlos Villalobos hit a grounder back to Estrada, who frantically looked around for the ball.
It was in his glove, but he didn't know it. By the time he found the ball, which had fallen out, Villalobos was safe.
Up came James Clifford, who was 2-for-3 with a homer in the game. Clifford hit a sinking liner that was caught by second baseman John Morreale, who threw to first to double up Villalobos and end the game.
"I thought it was going to go over (Morreale's) head," Clifford said. "I thought I was going to be lucky and it was going to go over his head, but nope, it didn't happen."
For the first time in his three starts with the JetHawks, Greg Wooten didn't get a win.
In the course of his seven innings, he gave up a lot of hits (11) and five earned runs, but he only walked one before giving up three runs in the seventh.
Stockton scored one run in the third (Josh Tyler had an RBI groundout) and the sixth (Williams scored on a fielder's choice).
"Wooten threw a good ballgame," Brundage said. "He got his ground balls, they just ended up going into the outfield."
Wooten didn't fool the Ports, though. He had one strikeout and only one 1-2-3 inning, the first.
He couldn't hold a 5-2 lead in the seventh as the Ports tied the game with a rally started by the bottom of their batting order.
Rob Campillo and Dan Klassen, the number 8 and 9 hitters in the Ports' lineup, both singled to start the inning.
After Wooten got two fly outs, Williams hit a sharp grounder up the middle that glanced off a diving Jason Cook near second and rolled into center field.
Campillo and Klassen both scored on the hit, cutting the lead to 5-4. Rennhack drove Williams home with a single to right and the game was tied.
The JetHawks tied the game at one in the third and took a 4-1 lead in the fourth on Clifford's 12th homer, a drive that went about 450 feet and landed on Freeway 14 on-ramp.