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Biscuits top Lookouts with four in ninth
The Chattanooga Lookouts are officially on the clock.
Chattanooga opened its 140-game Southern League schedule Thursday night in Montgomery, but this is more than just a new beginning for the Lookouts in their first season as Class AA affiliates of the Minnesota Twins. For the first time in the sport’s seemingly timeless history, digital timers are being used in an effort to speed up the game.
“They’ve always said there is no clock in baseball, but I guess there is now,” Lookouts pitching coach Stu Cliburn, a reliever for the California Angels during the 1980s, said this week. “We’ll get used to seeing these clocks. We never used to have the radar guns, either, so it’s something else that’s going to be part of the game now.
“We’ll deal with it and move forward with it.”