Lookouts shade Braves behind Hurlbut, 4-3

Chattanooga Lookouts logo, blue background
Chattanooga Lookouts logo, blue background

The Chattanooga Lookouts pulled out a 4-3 win over visiting Mississippi at AT&T Field on Monday, weathering a two-run Braves rally in the ninth inning.

Lookouts starting and winning pitcher David Hurlbut (5-4) did not strike out a batter but allowed only five hits and no runs in his seven innings. Alex Muren got his first save despite allowing a hit, two walks and the two runs in the ninth.

Stephen Wickens and Heiker Meneses each was 2-for-3 and Meneses and Travis Harrison had an RBI apiece for the Lookouts, who scored two unearned runs with the help of three errors on one play with two outs in the seventh inning.

Emerson Landoni was 5-for-5 with a double and an RBI single for the Braves, who dropped to 10-8 in the Southern League's second half while first-half North champion Chattanooga won for only the fourth time in 17 games.

The Lookouts (47-38 overall) took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when Kennys Vargas, Adam Brett Walker II and Wickens opened with singles and Vargas came home on Marcus Knecht's double-play grounder. They made it 3-0 in the seventh and answered Mississippi's run in the top of the eighth with a new three-run advantage as Niko Goodrum led off the bottom of the inning with a triple and scored on Harrison's single to center field.

Chattanooga is off today and begins its first series ever in Biloxi, Miss., on Wednesday night.

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