There were fireworks in the sky after Friday night’s Southern League baseball matchup at AT&T Stadium.
Brent Rooker and the Chattanooga Lookouts provided quite the opening act on the field for the announced crowd of 4,335.
The Lookouts exploded at the plate late, winning 6-2 against the Jackson Generals on Rooker’s walk-off grand slam.
The game was tied 2-2 after 6 1/2 innings, and Alex Perez lit the fuse on Chattanooga’s four-run ninth when he drew a one-out walk against Yoan Lopez. Tanner English, batting with two outs, was hit by a pitch, and a wild pitch to Lamonte Wade allowed the runners to advance.
Lopez then intentionally walked Wade, setting up Rooker’s home run to left field that wrapped up a sweep of the five-game series. Chattanooga, which leads the North Division as it chases its third Southern League title in four years, has won nine of 10 games this month.