Zach Granite was 2-for-5 with his 11th and 12th stolen bases.
photo by Tim Evearitt
MOBILE, AL - The Mobile BayBears came up just one run short, falling to the Chattanooga Lookouts 4-3 at Hank Aaron Stadium on Friday night.
Chattanooga (12-16) scored first with a run in the top half of the second inning. Lookouts DH Joe Maloney drove in 3B Travis Harrison for the 1-0 Chattanooga lead.
In his second start, Omar Bencomo (1-1) gave up just one run over six innings.
He allowed three walks, walked one and struck out five.
Jake Reed came on and gave up two runs on four hits in 1.1 innings. He walked one and struck one out. JT Chargois got the final five outs. He gave up one hit and a walk but no runs, to record his sixth save.
The Lookouts struck again in the top of the fourth inning with another run. Leo Reginatto reached second base on a line drive to center that ricocheted off the glove of BayBears CF Chad Oberacker. Riginatto would come in to score two batters later with a RBI single from Lookouts CF Shannon Wilkerson.
Mobile (10-16) got on the board with a run in the bottom of the fourth inning when Oberacker lead off the frame with a walk and came in to score on a two-out RBI double from RF Gabriel Guerrero, cutting Chattanooga's lead to 2-1.
In the top of the fifth inning the Lookouts took a 3-1 advantage with one run and again the BayBears trimmed the lead to one with a sacrifice RBI from Catcher Michael Perez.
The one run deficit was again stretched to two runs when Chattanooga posted a run in the top of the eighth inning before the BayBears finally drew the score back to 4-3 with a RBI base hit from Oberacker in the bottom of the eighth.
The loss was charged to BayBears LHP Anthony Banda (1-2).
Bencomo signed late last year with the Twins and pitched for Ft. Myers. He pitched really well in Venezuela this past winter and returned to the organization. At the end of spring training, he went to Extended Spring Training and waited for an opportunity. With so much activity in the system, the Twins pushed him to Chattanooga.
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Travis Harrison went 2-for-4 with a walk.
photo by Tim Evearitt