Pitching coach Danny Darwin made just one trip to the mound to talk with Chattanooga Lookouts starter Alberto Bastardo.
The 20-year major league veteran needed to advise the 26-year-old career minor leaguer during a rough stretch of the Lookouts' 8-4 loss to the Tennessee Smokies on Friday night.
Bastardo cruised through the first inning by allowing a soft single. But he ran into plenty of trouble in the second inning when all nine Smokies players stepped into the batter's box.
Four of those batters scored. Matthew Spencer doubled home Blake Lalli. Pitcher Chris Carpenter hit a high chopper to third that Corey Smith could simply grab and hold, which left the bases loaded. Then Bastardo walked Tony Campana, prompting Darwin to stroll out from the first-base dugout and meet with his Venezuelan pitcher.
Bastardo induced a sacrifice fly to center and another flyout to Trayvon Robinson to end the misery.
He pitched six innings -- throwing more than 100 pitches for the first time this season -- and allowed eight hits and five runs. He struck out five batters.
The Lookouts (11-11) immediately responded when Scott Van Slyke led off the bottom of the second inning with a blast over the left-field fence that ignited a few fireworks before the postgame fireworks show.
Tennessee (16-6) scored an unearned run in the fourth inning. Chattanooga shortstop Dee Gordon booted a two-out grounder, and Lalli followed with an RBI single.
The Lookouts climbed closer to the Smokies in the bottom of the sixth inning. Smith hit a grounder to short in what should have been a double play, but the throw to first by Tony Thomas missed the mark and Tommy Giles scored.
Catcher Mike Rivera blooped a fly to right that scored Smith, who beat a close throw from Tennessee's Spencer.
Thoughts of a second straight ninth-inning game-winning rally were killed in the top of the ninth by Spencer.
The Morristown, Tenn., resident crushed a fastball over the right-field fence for his fourth RBI of the night and an 8-3 lead. Van Slyke never thought about chasing the ball.
Chattanooga did get one run in its last at-bat on an RBI single by Robinson.