The Chattanooga Lookouts scored three runs in the first inning and needed all of them in outlasting Chattanooga State 3-2 in a seven-inning exhibition Tuesday night at AT&T Field.
Pedro Baez's two-out single to left scored two runs and capped Chattanooga's opening surge, and Nate Eovaldi snuffed out hopes of a Chattanooga State rally by working three hitless innings in relief and striking out six. The Lookouts threw two wild pitches, committed one error and in the sixth inning had a base-running gaffe at third with nobody out.
Chattanooga State, the No. 2 ranked team in the NJCAA, hung close by belting four doubles off Lookouts starter Steven Jackson. Gabe Herman had two of the doubles for the Tigers, with Tyler Roach and Zach Zarzour adding one apiece.
Herman led off the game with a double into the right-field corner and scored on the two wild pitches.
Tuesday was by far the closest of the five exhibitions between the Lookouts and Tigers. The Lookouts won last year's meeting 11-1 and were 20-0 winners in 2007.