Lookouts Move Into First Place With 4-1 Win Tuesday

Birmingham Series Concludes Wednesday With 11:15 A. M. Game

  • Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Nick Gordon had another big night at the plate. A triple and a home run.
Nick Gordon had another big night at the plate. A triple and a home run.
photo by Tim Evearitt

Chattanooga Lookouts shortstop Nick Gordon went 2-for-4 with a home run and a triple to lead the team to a 4-1 win over the Birmingham Barons. The victory was the team's ninth straight at home and moves them into sole possesion of first place in the North Division.

The Lookouts jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first as Gordon led off the game with his Southern League-leading fifth triple that was followed by an RBI double from Edgar Corcino.

He scored on a single from LaMonte Wade that also had an error on the relay throw.

They extended the lead to 4-0 in the fourth, when a Dan Rohlfing double was followed by Gordon’s third home run of the season.

It was 4-0 at that point as starter Nik Turley, fresh off the plane back from a cameo in AAA, blanked the Barons for the first four innings. As he had only pitched six innings in three appearances with the Red Wings (one start), Turley was in the process of getting stretched back out so those four innings were all he went (64 pitches). In his last start for them on April 25th he, he struck out 14 in seven innings.. He actually bested that K-rate in this one, with nine. He allowed only one hit and walked one, lowering his ERA in AA to 0.37.  

Matt Tracy came on for the fifth inning and went the next four innings. He scattered one run on four hits and a walk, while striking out four. The walk came in the sixth and put a runner on second, who scored on the single that followed. Tracy worked around a leadoff double in the eighth and finished his night by striking out the next three hitters.

Nick Burdi was brought on for his first save opportunity of the season in the ninth with the score 4-1, and he set the Barons down in order to pick up his first save. 

Gordon and Corcino each had two-hit nights to lead the offense from the top two spots in the lineup. Wade’s single in the first made it a five-game hitting streak, and he has reached base safely in his last nineteen games. Over that time he is hitting .428/.556/.603 with five doubles, two home runs, 11 RBI, and 18 walks versus just 10 K’s.

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Wednesday, the Lookouts go for their second straight home series sweep. The RJ Young Business Person Special is set to begin at 11:15 a.m. with gates opening at 9:30 a.m. 

Nik Turley fanned nine Barons in just 4.0 innings.
Nik Turley fanned nine Barons in just 4.0 innings.
photo by Tim Evearitt
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