Instead they produced a ho-hummer.

The Weevils were listless Sunday in a 3-1 South Atlantic League loss to the Columbus RedStixx, making so little noise that babies in attendance at Fieldcrest Cannon Stadium slept right through the whole thing.

That lack of smack was a little surprising, because just 14 hours earlier, the Weevils had claimed one of their most exciting wins ever— a 5-4, 10-inning, come-from-behinder against the same RedStixx. After that one, the Weevils should have had all the momentum in the world going for them Sunday. Instead, they exhibited the biggest energy shortage since there were lines at the gas pumps in 1973.

Not that the RedStixx (66-66) were a ball of fire, either.

Columbus’ Byron Ewing was actually thrown out on a grounder on which Weevils shortstop Anderson Machado tripped, slipped, stumbled, fumbled, triple-pumped and then dumped over to first base.

Ewing, out by plenty, apparently had better things to do than run to first.

Someone finally shot Dallas’ J.R. Ewing. There’s no doubt that Columbus manager Brad Komminsk would have shot his own Ewing if he could have located a handy firearm.

Still, Komminsk’s day was a sight better than that of Weevils manager Ken Oberkfell, who was Komminsk’s teammate on the Atlanta Braves from 1984-86.

Komminsk got to wave three guys home. Obie only got to send one.

Double plays erased two Weevils. One Weevil, Jeremy Salazar, actually scored on Carlos Acevedo’s fourth-inning double. The remaining 13 were more hopelessly stranded than Gilligan and the Skipper during the 2 hour, 33 minute-exercise in futility.

The most painful inning was the ninth. Alex Fajardo and Wil Polidor singled to open the frame, but Alejandro Giron grounded out and Eric Schreimann popped up. Then Shayne Carnes watched a third strike on the outside corner to end the carnage.

Only 943 were witnesses as the Weevils slid to 63-68.