Chattanooga Lookouts logoSo it all comes down to this.
Tyler Wagner was dominant in his Double-A debut, allowing two hits in six scoreless innings to pace the Huntsville Stars to a 4-0 victory Sunday afternoon over Chattanooga at AT&T Field. The Stars squared the Southern League’s best-of-five North Division series at two games apiece, setting up a winner-take-all finale tonight at 7:15.
“When the season started, if they would have said this club would have been playing one game to determine who goes to the Southern League championship series and if I would take that?” Lookouts manager Razor Shines said. “I would have signed on the dotted line, so I’m all right with it.
“There will be nothing different about this fifth game. It will be business as usual. We will come to the park and get our work in, and we will prepare for a baseball game.”
What has been different — and it’s a battle the Southern League faces annually after Labor Day — are the AT&T crowds. Chattanooga’s 2-1 victory Saturday night took place before 1,248 fans, and Sunday’s audience of 633 was the smallest in the 14-year history of the 6,340-seat facility.