The Chattanooga Lookouts have gone from really good to historically good.
Jonathan Rodriguez’s two-out, two-strike single to left field in the 14th inning Tuesday night scored Nick Gordon to propel the Lookouts to a 6-5 win over Tennessee and a seventh consecutive victory before a sold-out crowd of 6,368 at AT&T Field. Chattanooga came home early Tuesday morning after a six-game road sweep of Mississippi and now has won an eye-popping 21 of its past 23 games.
“It’s unusual, no doubt, and especially at this level with the competition that we play and see every day,” Lookouts manager Jake Mauer said. “So many things are involved in something like this, and it’s been fun. It’s fun watching them be competitive in every game, and if we keep getting good starting pitching like we have been, we’re going to be OK.”
Chattanooga is 53-29 overall this season and is on pace to have its best winning percentage since the existing Southern League’s inception in 1964. The Lookouts have a .646 win clip through 82 of their 140 games this season, topping the .629 rate achieved by the 1992 squad (90-53).
The 2004 Lookouts (87-53) had a .621 winning percentage.