Agriculture requres rain, of course, and indeed it came with Friday night’s Agriculture Night at AT&T Field, but the Chattanooga Lookouts overcame the weather and the visiting Blue Wahoos with a 6-1 Southern League baseball win over Pensacola.
The teams meet there again tonight on Star Wars Night at 7:15, with fireworks scheduled to follow, and then play two seven-inning games Sunday beginning at 4:15.
Opening the second half of the season with its 11th win in 12 games, Chattanooga jumped quickly ahead with a two-run first inning and added three scores in the fourth. The Lookouts’ first at-bat began with a walk for Nick Gordon and a double by Edgar Corcino, and both scored on a throwing error on LaMonte Wade’s hit to the second baseman.
Levi Michael’s three-run home run with two outs in the fourth followed a Jonathan Rodriguez double and an Andy Wilkins walk with one out. After Gavin LaValley’s homer for Pensacola in the fifth, the Lookouts regained their five-run lead when Corcino singled in Dan Rohlfing in the seventh.
LaValley also doubled in collecting a third of the Blue Wahoos’ six hits, and Chattanooga’s Corcino and Rodriguez each matched him at 2-for-4. The Lookouts totaled seven hits in support of starting pitcher Stephen Gonsalves and two relievers.