The Chattanooga Lookouts no longer have capacity restrictions at AT&T Field.
Beginning with Tuesday night’s game against the visiting Rocket City Trash Pandas, the Lookouts will make all 6,340 seats available at the facility that opened before the 2000 season. Chattanooga’s Class AA franchise had a 40% capacity for the first three homestands of this season due to the coronavirus pandemic and played the past three homestands with a 70% limit.
The Lookouts have four six-game homestands remaining in their 120-game schedule.
“As much as we would love to think that we’re going to do way bigger numbers, historically, as school gets geared up, we tend to slow down a little bit,” Lookouts president Rich Mozingo said. “To get to 6,300 right now may be a stretch, but we’ve done it in the past. We’re so dependent on the weather, and it’s been such a weird summer, so if we could get that 80-degree Saturday, we could get there.”
The lifting of capacity limitations at AT&T Field is coming at a time when COVID numbers are on the rise again, and Mozingo is well aware of that and planning accordingly.