Facing a full count with the bases loaded and nobody out in the bottom of the ninth inning Friday night at AT&T Field, Tyler Stephenson gave the Chattanooga Lookouts a lift by keeping the bat on his shoulder.
Stephenson swung at the second pitch of his at-bat against Biloxi’s Justin Topa, fouled off the fourth pitch to even the count, then looked at two straight balls to draw a walk and bring home Narciso Crook as the Lookouts beat the Shuckers 7-6.
Crook and Taylor Trammell started the Lookouts’ half of the ninth with back-to-back singles before Ibandel Isabel reached on third baseman Weston Wilson’s fielding error to set up Stephenson.
Biloxi took the game’s first lead with an RBI single by Luis Aviles and Trent Grisham’s bases-loaded walk with two outs in the second, but Chattanooga responded with four runs in the bottom half as nine Lookouts went to the plate.
Stephenson started it with a single and scored on Brantley Bell’s double to left field. Alfredo Rodriguez followed with another RBI double, then scored on TJ Friedl’s sacrifice fly three batters later. Crook followed with a triple to right that drove in Luis Gonzalez, who had reached on an error.