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The runaway roller-coaster.

Anything went on anythinggoes night, with the JetHawks surviving three home runs, two errors and the mere fact they were playing in the not-so-friendly confines of Lancaster Municipal Stadium.

Gerald Eady went 3-for-5, scored three times and drove in a pair of runs, and Joel Ramirez - .197-hitting Joel Ramirez - came through with a clutch two-run single in the seventh inning to pace the JetHawks to a wild 11-9 victory over the San Jose Giants.

Lancaster treated the 3,253 fans at The Hangar to only its third victory at home in 14 games. Fittingly, it came in bizarre fashion.

It came after JetHawks closer Justin Kaye survived another adventurous ninth inning. One inning after he handled the Giants with relative ease, Kaye was roughed up for three runs on four hits.

After Tim Flaherty's two-run double gave him his fourth RBI of the night and made it 11-9, Kaye regained his focus long enough to strike out Angel Melendez to end the game.

On a night when the old Phillie Phanatic was doing his thing as a fuzzball called "Sport," frenetic was the buzzword.

"They were pretty excited today. They were more focused," JetHawks manager Darrin Garner said. "Like I said, winning at home makes you feel so good.

"Tonight, the energy in the dugout was amazing. Even before we took the big lead."

That would be the 7-1 edge Lancaster propped up ace Brandon Parker with - a lead amassed with three runs in the third and three more in the fifth.

Eady figured prominently in both rallies, doubling home Alexander Fernandez in the third before scoring on a wild pitch, and singling home Jose Moreno in the fifth.

The 7-1 lead disappeared almost as quickly as the JetHawks earned it.

Parker was cruising along, scattering four hits through five innings, when the cruise started getting rocky two outs into the sixth.

Mike Glendenning (3-for-5, 2 runs, 2 RBI) started things with his second single, then Flaherty roped a ball over the left-field wall. Angel Melendez reset the table with a single, whereupon Matt Bazzani uncorked his second homer in as many innings.

Just like that, it was 7-5. It became 7-6 at reliever Zac Stark's expense when Carlos Campusano opened the seventh with a single, went to second on Carlos Valderrama's grounder and scored on Glendenning's third hit of the night.

Helping things along was Eady's drop of Tony Zuniga's fly ball in left-center field.

"Aw man. I thought I was under it and I was behind the peak, so I could catch it out front," Eady said. "As it came down, the wind just pushed it further and further away from me."

That was where the game was going for the JetHawks, at least until Ramirez came through with his two-out single off reliever Will Malerich in the seventh.

Earlier in the inning, Greg Connors reached on a fielder's choice, moved to third on catcher Bazzani's throwing error, and scored when third baseman Zuniga couldn't handle Harvey Hargrove's slow bouncer.

Ramirez lined a shot into left field, scoring Craig Kuzmic (walk) and Hargrove, who went to second on Pee Wee Lopez's textbook hitand-run groundout to second.

And just like that, it was 10-6. Just like that, memories of Thursday's 1-0 loss were just that - memories.

"That was a big hit. Before that, the hit-and-run, Pee Wee executed on a pretty tough pitch and that's what it's all about," Garner said. "He did it when we needed him to come through. That was a big part of the game right there."