The Chattanooga Lookouts rallied twice to keep Mobile from pulling away Thursday night, but they couldn’t mount a third comeback to force extra innings and lost 9-7.
There were 3,725 in the stands at AT&T Field for the Lookouts’ final home game of the Southern League season’s first half, which was also the team’s fourth straight loss. Chattanooga (33-27) will play its final 10 first-half games in Alabama, with series against the Montgomery Biscuits and the Birmingham Barons.
The Baybears (33-26) led 6-0 after 4 1/2 innings Thursday, but the Lookouts answered with six runs in the bottom of the fifth.
James Ramsey, Sean Miller, LaMonte Wade and Brent Rooker had four straight singles – Ramsey scored on Wade’s hit and Miller went home on Rooker’s – before Zander Wiel drew a one-out walk to load the bases. Chris Paul’s double cleared them, and Paul advanced to third on a wild pitch before scoring on Alex Perez’s sacrifice fly to center field.
Mobile went back ahead in the seventh as Luis Rengifo led off with a triple and Zach Houchins singled to bring him in, but Chattanooga responded in the bottom half with Edgar Corcino’s home run to right that made it 7-all.