Jaime Pedroza and Jerry Sands both homered Thursday night at AT&T Field, but their Chattanooga Lookouts couldn’t overcome a botched eighth inning.
Pedroza hit a line-drive shot to left-center field in the first inning and Sands hit a monster homer in the fifth as the Lookouts tried for their third straight win in their first home game since July 10.
But the Mobile BayBears scored four runs in the eighth – two coming on a triple – and won 7-4 in front of a small crowd of 2,570.
“We just did a bad job and we’ve got to execute,” Lookouts manager Carlos Subero said. “We’ve got to execute and play better baseball.”
The Lookouts (12-15 in the second half, 45-51 overall) led 4-2 after five innings and 4-3 entering the eighth.