The Chattanooga Lookouts have a dream schedule for a second-place team running low on time in the Southern League's North Division first-half race.
Only eight games remain, but six are against the first-place club.
"We've got six games in five days at Montgomery coming up," Lookouts manager Pat Kelly said, "so that will give us a chance to make up ground."
The chief question facing the Lookouts is how much ground they plan to cover.
Their 1-0 loss to Tennessee on Sunday afternoon at Smokies Park dropped them to 34-27 and 3.5 games back of Montgomery, which posted a 3-1 victory at Jacksonville to improve to 38-24. The Lookouts will play the Smokies again Monday and Tuesday in Kodak before Chattanooga wraps up its first half with the six-game set at Montgomery.
The Lookouts and Biscuits will play six times due to a rescheduling that resulted from an April 18 rainout at AT&T Field.
Lookouts starting pitcher Packy Naughton was stout Sunday, allowing one run on three hits over six innings. Tennessee scored in the fifth, when Charcer Burks led off with a single to left field, advanced to second base on a one-out groundout and went home on Gioskar Amaya's single to left.
Chattanooga, which had seven hits, went 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position.
Tony Santillan (2-2, 3.40) is scheduled to start Monday's game for the Lookouts, with Thomas Hatch (2-6, 5.22) scheduled for the Smokies.
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