Given the unseasonable high temperatures lately, the Chattanooga Lookouts were in need of a strong starting pitching performance to give some bullpen pitchers a rest. Additionally, they were overdue an offensive explosion.
They got both Sunday afternoon at AT&T Field and Chattanooga defeated Carolina 10-4 in Southern League baseball.
Will Savage (6-2) got the start for the Lookouts in the 90-plus-degree heat. He’s been averaging six innings per start and Sunday went seven.
“He did a great job,” Lookouts manager Carlos Subero said. “He gave us seven innings, especially when we needed it. Probably six would’ve been good on a day like today. Himself he wanted to go out in the seventh. He felt good.”
After surrendering Cody Puckett’s leadoff double in the third inning, the last of four hits the Lookouts’ right-hander gave up was James Skelton’s two-out single in the third. He retired the last 10 he faced.