Chattanooga Lookouts beat Tennessee Smokies by one run for second straight game

Chattanooga Lookouts
Chattanooga Lookouts

For the second straight night, the Chattanooga Lookouts won a one-run game against the Tennessee Smokies thanks to a clutch hit from Travis Harrison.

This one was secured more efficiently, though.

Harrison's two-run double in the eighth inning proved the difference Saturday as the Lookouts beat the Smokies 3-2 in front of an announced crowd of 4,765 at AT&T Field.

The win came a day after a 6-5 Lookouts victory in 11 innings that clocked in at 4 hours, 16 minutes. That's Chattanooga's longest game of the season by 38 minutes despite the second-longest also being decided in 11 innings.

Harrison's deciding double followed a leadoff walk by Ryan Walker and a Dalton Hicks double, and Trevor Hildenberger took the mound in the ninth for a 1-2-3 inning to earn his fifth save.

Corey Williams (2-0) pitched the seventh and eighth, allowing two hits and striking out three.

The Lookouts (22-27) took a 1-0 lead in the third on Harrison's two-out single that scored Zach Granite. Tennessee (22-27) scored a run on a bases-loaded double play in the fifth and went ahead on Mark Zagunis' two-out home run in the sixth.

The Lookouts have made a habit of close games this month, and their latest win put them above the .500 mark in such contests. Seventeen of their 26 games in May have been decided by one run, with the Lookouts 9-8 in such finishes.

The five-game series wraps tonight, with first pitch at 6:15 and fireworks after the game. Also, the first 1,000 fans will receive a Lookouts logo baseball.

Brad Markey (4-1, 2.59 ERA) is the probable starter for the Smokies, with Omar Bencomo (1-2, 3.32) scheduled to start for the Lookouts, who are off Monday before starting a five-game series at Birmingham on Tuesday.

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