The scenes at Jackie Robinson Stadium were reminiscent of “Looney Tunes.”

Like something Bill and Ted might encounter at the Circle K.

As if Lemony Snicket’s words jumped from the page to the diamond.

Whatever manner of analogies about wacky, strange or unfortunate events – they all applied Friday night.

“This game is a humbling game,” said coach John Savage. “And we got humbled.”

From a bat flying out of USC outfielder Carson Wells’ hands and into his team’s dugout to junior right-hander Luke Jewett slipping and falling not once but twice while attempting to field grounders, each event seemed to tip the balance in USC’s (8-13, 4-3 Pac-12) favor and away from UCLA baseball (7-12, 2-5). Ultimately, the Trojans blew out the Bruins 15-2, their biggest win in the crosstown rivalry since 2002.

Freshman catcher Cashel Dugger – who had one of UCLA’s two RBIs – said there are lessons to be gleaned for the rest of the series.

“Just learning from our mistakes, and obviously, knowing that what we did tonight (Friday) isn’t going to work,” Dugger said. “Finding what we got to do to win, and just knowing that tomorrow’s a new day.”

The full story of Friday’s rivalry game began in the second inning.

While waving at a pitch, Wells’ bat soared out of his hands and into the USC dugout, nearly reaching the first-base-side camera well. He walked back to his dugout to retrieve his bat before striking out on the next pitch.

An inning later, another object ended up hurtling down the first baseline.

This one wouldn’t come back.

USC catcher Jacob Galloway launched a 3-1 hanging breaking ball over the right-field fence and onto the batting cages for a two-run homer to open the scoring.

The weirdness picked up two innings later.

With a runner on third and two outs, Jewett had his first of two losing fights with the grass.

While attempting to field a grounder, the starter slipped in the grass, forcing him to throw from the ground and pulling freshman first baseman Mulivai Levu off the bag, resulting in a Trojan run and extending the inning. Two walks and a single later, two more runs pushed USC’s lead to five.

“We talked about handling their short game and their running game, and I didn’t think we did a very good job of it,” Savage said. “That led to some big innings.”

But the grass – suddenly wearing cardinal and gold – wasn’t done yet.

Jewett attempted to make the same play the following inning and once more lost his footing, rendering him unable to make the play and consequently loading the bases with no outs. Redshirt junior right-hander Chris Aldrich replaced Jewett but allowed five runs to score on two singles, a walk and a hit batter.

“We didn’t make enough pitches. Our bats weren’t good enough. Just overall, we got handled,” Savage said.

Even Aldrich’s first two outs generated runs on a sacrifice fly and RBI groundout, resulting in a seven-run inning and a 12-1 Bruin deficit.

USC added three more runs in the seventh inning, bringing it to a season-high 15.

Freshman right-handers Owen Egan – a two-way prospect out of high school – and Justin Lee were put on mop-up duty, with the former racking up three strikeouts in 1.2 innings in his collegiate debut.

“I thought he (Egan) was really good,” Savage said. “Good slider, good change, competitive fastball. He’s a competitive guy. … Hopefully, he’ll get some more chances.”

The Bruins will have the chance to avoid a more infamous sequel when they return to face the Trojans in the second game of the series Saturday.

“I think I’m moving on from everything,” said junior second baseman Duce Gourson. “I’m not really going to carry anything from today (Friday) to tomorrow (Saturday).”