The Chattanooga Lookouts scored a run in the ninth inning to stave off defeat but lost 7-6 in 11 to Tennessee in their Southern League baseball game Saturday night at AT&T Field.
In the 11th, the Smokies' Victor Caratini hit a two-out single to left field to score Trey Martin, who singled ahead of a Chesny Young walk with one out and went to third on Ian Happ's flyout to center. Then Starling Peralta (5-1) got the Lookouts 1-2-3 for the win.
Tennessee's Daniel Lockhart led off the ninth with a single and advanced on a Martin sacrifice bunt and a Young single. Chattanooga's Ryan Walker began the bottom half with a walk and scored on Travis Harrison's one-out double. Harrison was thrown out trying to make it a triple.
The Lookouts loaded the bases in the 10th on Edgar Corcino's one-out walk, Engelb Vielma's single and Zach Granite's two-out walk, but Walker grounded out to first to end that threat.
The Lookouts took a 4-0 lead in the second inning, when Harrison singled and Stuart Turner walked ahead of Corcino's home run to right field, followed by a two-out single from Levi Michael, a Granite walk and Walker's RBI single. But Tennessee got one run back in the third and added a two-run homer by Bijan Rademacher in the fourth, before Chattanooga made it 5-3 with Leonardo Reginatto's bases-loaded walk in the fifth.
Rademacher led off the sixth with a double, moved to third on a David Freitas single and scored on a Kelly Dugan sacrifice fly, and Rademacher scored the tying run in the eighth when he and Freitas hit two-out singles and Zack Jones threw a wild pitch with Dugan batting.
Rademacher got his fourth hit after Caratini's walk off Brandon Peterson starting the 10th, but Peterson got the next three batters.
The finale of the five-game series is tonight at 7:15. Stephen Gonsalves (3-1, 3.03 ERA) will start on the mound for the Lookouts, while the Smokies will counter with Zach Hedges (0-0, 6.00).