Chattanooga outfielder Adam Brett Walker II is burning up record books.
Last year, Walker set the Fort Myers Miracles' single-season home run record with 25 shots over the fence and broke the previous standard by four.
Monday, he hit a home run at AT&T Field against the Tennessee Smokies that gave him a share of the Lookouts' single-season record with 28 homers this season.
The sixth-inning blast also propelled Chattanooga to a 4-2 win over the Smokies in the first of two seven-inning games, the doubleheader necessitated by a rainout Sunday.
The Lookouts lost the second game of the evening 4-1.
In the sixth inning of game one, Smokies starter Pierce Johnson had stifled Chattanooga until that point, but in the time it takes to drive from the ballpark to Morrison Springs Road in Red Bank, Johnson allowed three runs.
Jorge Polanco scored on a single up the middle by Max Kepler, which tied the game 2-2. Walker homered in the next at-bat to left field, giving the Lookouts a two-run advantage.
J.T. Chargois, who had been warming up in the bullpen when Walker hit the record-tying home run, earned the save by retiring the only three batters he facde.
In the second game, the Smokies scored two runs in the top of the sixth inning when Anthony Giansanti hit a double to left. Niko Goodrum was 2-for-3 and scored the Lookouts' run on a two-out single by D.J. Hicks. Kepler, who had walked, was out at the plate on the hit.
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