The Chattanooga Lookouts scored five runs in a three-inning stretch late in the game, but they couldn't catch the Birmingham Barons after the visitors' earlier outbursts and lost 11-7 Friday night in front of 3,692 at AT&T Field.
The Barons led 3-0 halfway through the first inning on a two-run single by Blake Rutherford and an RBI single by Ti'Quan Forbes, both with two outs. Chattanooga (24-22) scored one run in the second and another in the fourth to answer Birmingham's run in the top half of that inning, but the Barons (19-28) pulled away with a five-run fifth.
In that big inning, Rutherford drew a bases-loaded walk with one out before Forbes cleared the reloaded bags with a double to left field, and Forbes went home on Mitch Roman's two-out single to right.
The Lookouts scored two runs apiece in the sixth - on Brantley Bell's RBI single and an error - and the seventh - on Ibandel Isabel's 12th home run of the season - and got their final run in the eighth, when a groundout brought in Gavin LaValley, who had a leadoff double and moved to third on another groundout.
Birmingham scored its final two runs in the seventh.
Chattanooga's Taylor Trammell singled with one out in the bottom of the ninth but was left stranded as Luis Martinez got back-to-back swinging strikeouts to end the game.