Aaron Slegers took the loss in Thursday's loss to the Biscuits.
photo by Tim Evearitt
After over an hour of waiting out rain, the Lookouts fell to the Montgomery Biscuits 6-2 Thursday night to bring the teams back into a tie for second overall in the Southern League North Division and for the second divisional playoff spot.
After an 8:30 first pitch, Montgomery jumped out to an early lead they held on to through the entire contest on a sac fly by Willy Adames off Lookouts' starter Aaron Slegers.
Slegers battled through five and a third innings pitched, walking four, giving up five hits and six runs, five of them earned. The loss dropped Slegers to 9-7 this season.
Chattanooga scored their first run in the bottom of the third to bring the score to 2-1, the closest it would be Thursday night. The Lookouts generated the run after Tanner Witt picked up his first hit in the Southern League and came home to score on a Zach Granite sac fly.
Montgomery answered back with a pair of runs in the fourth and sixth to chase Slegers from the game and bring Brandon Peterson out of the bullpen. Peterson walked a pair of batters, but kept Montgomery hitless in two and two-thirds innings while striking out three and taking the game to the ninth inning, where righty Todd Van Steensel made his Lookouts debut hours after being called up from High-A Fort Myers.
In his first taste of Southern League action, Van Steensel retired the side in order, striking out the first batter he faced and giving the Lookouts one last shot at coming back from down four runs in the bottom of the ninth.
Montgomery, however, had other plans as reliever Kyle Bird threw a 1-2-3 inning of his own to close out the win for the Biscuits and even the series at one win each.
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Game three is scheduled for 7:15 pm Friday with Kohl Stewart pitching for the Lookouts and Brent Honeywell starting for Montgomery.
The game was delayed over an hour until the rain moved on.
photo by Tim Evearitt