The Chattanooga Lookouts have mixed feelings about lunchtime starts, but their performance in early games is anything but mixed.
“I love these games after they’re over because you have the whole afternoon and night,” Lookouts manager Carlos Subero said Wednesday morning before his team hosted Montgomery, “but they’re tough to get cranked up for.”
Chattanooga never got going in their late-morning start against the Biscuits, falling behind 9-0 after four innings in a 9-0 loss before a crowd of 4,876 at AT&T Field. In the only other lunchtime game at AT&T this season, the Lookouts trailed Birmingham 8-0 after two innings April 18 before falling short 9-8.
Allen Webster, the No. 2 prospect in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization according to Baseball America, experienced his worst outing of the season. The 22-year-old from Madison, N.C., failed to pitch four innings before giving up nine runs on seven hits and two walks.
Webster has allowed 22 runs over his last three starts, and his earned run average has swelled to 7.49.