Santiago no-hitter puts Lookouts in first place

By David Paschall August 29, 2014 2 min read

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Thursday night marked the 136th scheduled game of the season for the Chattanooga Lookouts and the 66th at AT&T Field, but there was something very different about it.

“There is a vibe in the air,” Lookouts shortstop Corey Seager said. “Everybody is on their game. Everybody is ready and seems to have a little more energy.”

Nobody was on his game more than Lookouts starting pitcher Andres Santiago, who threw a no-hitter to lead Chattanooga to a 1-0 victory over Tennessee before an announced crowd of 2,445. Santiago struck out 12 Smokies and faced the minimum, allowing a one-out walk to Christian Villanueva in the eighth inning before getting a 6-4-3 double play.

The 10th Lookouts no-hitter in history was the first in a Chattanooga stadium in the modern era (since 1976).

Chattanooga got the only run it needed in the second inning, when Chris O’Brien hit a two-out home run to right field.

David Paschall

David Paschall has covered sports at the Chattanooga Times Free Press since 1999 and wrote for the Chattanooga Free Press in the nine years before that. David has mostly covered college athletics, with a focus on the University of Georgia from 2000 to 2019 and the University of Tennessee since 2020. He grew up in Chattanooga and is a graduate of the Baylor School and Auburn University. David has received multiple writing awards and has served as a Heisman Trophy voter since 2003. He has also worked in radio in Chattanooga and has been on the SEC Network's "Classic Rewind" series since 2014. David and his wife, Kelly, have three children — Conner, Emily and Spencer.

Contact David Paschall at dpaschall@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6524.