The Chattanooga Lookouts got tired of fooling around as the clock passed 12:30 this morning.
Heiker Meneses, Jorge Polanco and Niko Goodrum opened the bottom of the 16th inning with singles, Meneses crossing the plate to give Chattanooga a 6-5 Southern League victory over the visiting Mobile BayBears at AT&T Field.
Mobile (59-53 overall) had 18 hits in the game to 14 for the Lookouts (61-49), who took a 4-3 lead with a three-run seventh inning featuring singles by reigning Southern League player of the week Kennys Vargas, D.J. Hicks, Adam Brett Walker II and Stuart Turner.
Mobile tied the score on a throwing error in the eighth and took a 5-4 lead in the top of the 11th, only to have the home team tie at 5 when Vargas opened the bottom half with a walk and pinch runner Shannon Wilkerson advanced on singles by Hicks and Walker. The Lookouts had the bases loaded with one out after a Travis Harrison single but failed to get the winning run home then.
Five innings later, though, they did, giving Alex Wimmers (7-3) the pitching win as a reward for allowing one hit in two innings following a scoreless three innings by Alex Muren.