The Chattanooga Lookouts won 6-2 at Birminghan on Monday for their ninth win in 10 teams.
Adam Walker's three-run home run to left-center field in the eighth inning enabled Chattanooga to pull away from the Barons.
The Lookouts (18-12) trailed 2-1 in the seventh inning, when Max Kepler hit an RBI double to right that scored Walker. Kepler then came home on a Byron Buxton sacrifice fly to right. Buxton opened the game with a home run to left, his fourth homer this season.
Games two and three of a six-game series in Birmingham are tonight, with the opening seven-inning contest set for 6:30 EDT.
Tyler Duffey (2-2, 2.79 ERA) is scheduled to start the first game on the mound for the Lookouts, with Mark Blackmar (0-2, 4.50) scheduled for the Barons.