Sunday, April 06, 2008

Sunday's opener: Lookouts 8, Biscuits 4 (8 innings)

B.J. Szymanski hit an eighth-inning grand slam -- on an 0-2 pitch from Jeremy Flanagan -- to give the Chattanooga Lookouts an 8-4 victory over the Montgomery Biscuits.

The Biscuits rallied in the seventh, the finaly scheduled inning, without benefit of a hit to force an extra frame. Ronnie Merrill's flyout brought in Erold Andrus.

Montgomery starter James Houser allowed just two hits and one earned run in five innings.

Marathon Sunday

It's a doubleheader today due to Friday's rainout and here are the Game 1 lineups.

LOOKOUTS
Bolivar, dh
Anderson, 2b
Griffin, 3b
Gutierrez, 1b
Strait, cf
Dorn, lf
Szymanski, rf
Kroski, c
Castro, ss

BISCUITS
Eldridge, cf
Merrill, ss
Hughes, 1b
Nowak, 3b
Martinez, dh
Pedroza, rf
Cottrell, 2b
Andrus, lf
Spring, c

Saturday, April 05, 2008

A soggy Saturday

With more rain and tons of clouds, neither team took batting practice, but there should be baseball today.

Lineups ...
LOOKOUTS
Bolivar, 2b
Anderson, dh
Griffin, 3b
Dorn, lf
Tatum, c
Cumberland, cf
Szymanski, rf
Gutierrez, 1b
Eymann, ss

Avery, rhp

BISCUITS
Eldridge, cf
Merrill, ss
Jaso, c
Nowak, 3b
Hughes, 1b
Pedroza, rf
Martinez, dh
Cottrell, 2b
Andrus, lf

Davis, rhp

Friday, April 04, 2008

Special section links

In case you missed them, here are the links to the stories in Thursday's special section about the Biscuits.

McGee, Davis have a lot in common, including talent
A Q&A with pitching coach Neil Allen
Hughes looks ahead after being hit in mouth by pitch
Pedroza hit the shot heard around the city

We originally were going to have a trivia contest, so I made these more difficult than they needed to be. Then, we decided not to have a contest. (Feel free to post your results.)
Trivia questions
Answers

We were also able to PDF some of the graphics pages, but not the Southern League preview page or the Tampa Bay organizational ladder page. The file includes each player's baseball card.

Friday vs. Lookouts, weather -- Rain wins

Rainout. Doubleheader will start at 2:05 p.m. Sunday.

Clouds are looming on the horizon and the radar doesn't look too good, but here are your lineups for Game 2 of the Lookouts-Biscuits series.

LOOKOUTS
Luis Bolivar, 2b
Drew Anderson, dh
Michael Griffin, 3b
Daniel Dorn, lf
Craig Tatum, c
Shaun Cumberland, cf
B.J. Szymanski, rf
Tonys Gutierrez, 1b
Eric Eymann, ss
James Avery, rhp

BISCUITS
Rashad Eldridge, cf
Johnny Raburn, ss
John Jaso, c
Chris Nowak, 3b
Rhyne Hughes, 1b
Sergio Pedroza, rf
Gabriel Martinez, dh
Patrick Cottrell, 2b
Erold Andrus, lf
Wade Davis, rhp