LANCASTER —— The Storm is arguably the California League's best team when slugging first baseman Michael Johnson is in the lineup.

It's been among the league's most successful teams when they're playing anybody but the Lancaster JetHawks.

Neither factor was working in Lake Elsinore's favor Sunday.

This time, the JetHawks rallied in their last at-bat for their second time in three days for a dramatic 5-4 victory to complete yet another three-game series sweep of the Johnson-less Storm in front of 1,225 at Clear Channel Stadium.

First-place Lake Elsinore (23-20) is 0-6 against the JetHawks (23-21), who closed to within a half game of first place and into sole possession of second place with High Desert's 9-5 loss to Inland Empire. The Mavericks (22-21) dropped into third place, but remain within a game of the first-place Storm in a tight Southern Division race.

The Storm is 23-14 against everybody but Lancaster, and 20-11 when Johnson plays.

Johnson was batting .308 with eight homers and 34 RBI before being placed on the disabled list Friday with a hamate injury that will be operated on Tuesday. He'll likely be out the rest of the first half.

JetHawks shortstop Danny Richar lined a single to right with two outs in the ninth drive in the game-winner, capping a two-run rally off Storm closer Leo Rosales (4-5), who blew his second save of the series.

"I was just trying to put the ball in play," Richar said. "It felt really good."

Richar was 3-for-4, including a solo homer in the fifth that made it a 4-3 game.

Chris Carter started the ninth with a single. Jeff Cook singled in the tying run and scored the game-winner after taking second on centerfielder Steve Baker's fielding error.

"Tough loss," Storm manager Rick Renteria said. "Tough, tough loss."

The Storm was led by Brett Bonvechio, who was 3-for-4 and was within a triple of hitting for the cycle. His two-run homer to right in the first —— his fourth and his second in as many days —— highlighted a three-run inning.

Storm starter Jared Wells allowed three runs on five hits and one walk in 5 2/3 innings.

Wells, Wilmer Villatoro and Paul Abraham combined to hold the JetHawks to one hit (Richar's homer) between a Jay Garthwaite single with no outs in the fourth and Carter's leadoff single in the ninth.

But the Storm was unable to add to its lead. It squandered Andres Pagan's leadoff double in the seventh and failed to score with two on and two out in the eighth.

JetHawks catcher Miguel Montero was 1-for-4, extending his team-leading hitting streak to 18 games.

Baker was 0-for-4, snapping a nine-game hitting streak.

"We had some opportunities to maybe score a few more runs, but we couldn't take advantage of them," Renteria said. "We had all our chips where we wanted them. We had our setup guy and our closer going in with the lead, but it just didn't work out for us."