The Chattanooga Lookouts will wrap up their regular season this afternoon at AT&T Field with a chance at franchise history.
Chattanooga earned its 90th victory Sunday evening with a 5-1 victory over Montgomery, matching the win total of the 1992 Lookouts. No Chattanooga team has won 91 regular-season games as a member of the Southern League, which was founded in 1964.
"We've done it with a lot of different faces, and some of the guys who have been here all year have been pretty consistent," Lookouts manager Jake Mauer said. "To rattle off the number of wins we've had and the things that we've done have been pretty exciting to watch, and we're really just trying to stay healthy here at the end, but the makeup of this team has been really good all year.
"We've got a good group of guys who pull for each other, and even though faces have changed, guys who have come up have filled in very nicely."
The Lookouts rolled to first- and second-half championships in the North Division and will begin the best-of-five divisional series with Montgomery on Wednesday night at AT&T Field. Should the series go the distance, Chattanooga would host every game with the exception of the third one.
Chattanooga won the latest tuneup against the Biscuits behind starting pitcher Randy LeBlanc, who allowed just one run Sunday while striking out seven, and the bat of Edgar Corcino, who went 2-for-5 to raise his season average to .302 entering the final day.
Montgomery led 1-0 until the fifth inning, when Alex Perez singled to center, Nick Gordon reached on a fielding error and Corcino launched a three-run home run to left-center.
The Lookouts already have set a Southern League-era franchise record for regular-season winning percentage, because Chattanooga's 1992 team lost 53 games. The worst this year's team can do is 90-50.
Oddly enough, Lookouts starting pitcher Zack Littell was traded earlier this summer to the Minnesota Twins organization from the New York Yankees, where he was a member of the Class AA Trenton (N.J.) Thunder. Trenton had a 91-47 record in the Eastern League entering Sunday night.
"It's crazy," Littell said. "Both teams I've been on have just been tearing it up. It makes it easy to pitch when guys like that are behind you."
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