Monday, April 7, 2008
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Biscuits lose walkfest, 9-4
Series finale features 21 walks, three Biscuits errors
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MONTGOMERY – The Chattanooga Lookouts (3-2) defeated the Montogmery Biscuits (2-3) 9-4 at Riverwalk Stadium Monday night in a series finale offensive to the baseball aesthete.
The teams combined to walk 21 hitters (11 Biscuits and 10 Lookouts), and the Biscuits committed three more errors in the field, making nine for the opening series. The two teams also combined to leave 25 men on the bases.
The Lookouts did their share of hitting, too. Leadoff man Luis Bolivar tied a Southern League record by knocking out six hits (three singles, two doubles and a homer) in the game, becoming the 11th hitter in league history to accomplish the feat. It was last done by Biscuits shortstop Jace Brewer on June 22, 2004 at Tennessee.
Biscuits starter Mike Wlodarczyk lasted just three innings in his debut, walking five and allowing two runs. Five relievers combined to walk five more and permit seven runs on six hits.
The Biscuits took tied the game at 2-2 in the second inning on a bases-loaded single by Josh Asanovich and captured the lead at 4-2 on a bases-loaded single by Sergio Peroza in the sixth. But by and large, their situational hitting was poor. Erold Andrus went 0-for-3 with the bases loaded, stranding 10 men on base, and the Biscuits were 2-for-7 with men in scoring position.
Bolivar appropriately provided the game winner, knocking a two-run homer off of Jeff Kamrath in the sixth inning. The Lookouts poured four more runs on in the eighth to seal the deal.
The Biscuits, who have still never won a series against the Lookouts, get Tuesday off and head to Carolina next for a five-game series starting Wednesday at 6:15 p.m.
