Nine innings are not enough to decide things between the Chattanooga Lookouts and the Mobile BayBears.
Paul Goldschmidt’s RBI triple to right-center field and Ryan Wheeler’s RBI double down the right-field line catapulted Mobile to a 7-5 triumph in 11 innings Monday night at AT&T Field. It was the third extra-inning game of the six-game series, and the BayBears won all three.
Normally a BayBears outfielder, Kyle Green came in to pitch the bottom of the 11th and got Hector Gimenez, Scott Van Slyke and Kyle Russell to fly out.
Mobile won four games overall in the series to improve to 19-6 in the Southern League’s second half, while Chattanooga dropped to 14-11. Monday’s game time of four hours and two minutes topped Mobile’s 7-5 victory in 12 innings Sunday by two minutes.
Taylor Harbin’s two-out single up the middle off Josh Lindblom in the ninth inning scored Adam Eaton to give the BayBears a 5-4 lead, but the Lookouts tied it when Russell’s double to left scored Van Slyke. Russell took third on an error by left fielder Ollie Linton but was left stranded when Travis Denker struck out for the fifth time in the game.