The Chattanooga Lookouts continue to keep their cool, winning a fourth straight game Monday night at AT&T Field by topping Biloxi 1-0 in 10 innings.
Monday’s temperature at David Hurlbut’s first pitch was 72 degrees, which actually was warm compared to Saturday night’s 66-degree start and Sunday afternoon’s 65 degrees. The Lookouts have played five straight games with temperatures in the 60s or 70s since last Wednesday’s 86-degree start.
“You always love to play in beautiful weather, and the last few days have been gorgeous,” Lookouts catcher Stuart Turner said. “It’s been cool with the wind blowing a little bit. To me, sunny and 70 is perfect. I will get a little sweat going, but it’s a nice day.”
Biloxi and Chattanooga were scoreless through nine innings Monday before a crowd of 1,845, and Turner opened the 10th by singling to center field and advancing to second on a Levi Michael sacrifice. Following a wild pitch that got him to third, Turner scored the game’s only run on Daniel Palka’s infield single.
Hurlbut went nine innings and allowed just two hits while striking out seven, and Jake Reed worked a 1-2-3 10th as the Lookouts improved to 18-20.