Mississippi falls to Chattanooga in late rally

PEARL, MS -- The Chattanooga Lookouts (10-1, 52-29) hit their seventh home run of the week in Monday's series finale to sweep the Mississippi Braves (3-8, 37-44) with a 4-2 come-from-behind victory in front of a season-high crowd of 6,532 at Trustmark Park.
Monday night was a rematch of game one starters Tyler Pike and Stephen Gonsalves, and this time around, it was a much better battle. For Mississippi, Pike was perfect through three innings, and held a powerful Chattanooga offense scoreless for six innings.

It was in the seventh that Pike was lifted after giving up a leadoff double followed by a walk, and the M-Braves brought in Philip Pfiefer. With a 3-1 count to Levi Michael, the first batter Pfiefer faced, Michael launched a three-run homer into the Mississippi bullpen. It was the third three-run blast of the series for Chattanooga, and it gave the Lookouts a 3-2 lead. The visitors added another run off Pfiefer in the eighth to make it 4-2 before Devan Watts came in to close the game out. Pfiefer was touched for the loss, his second of the year.
Offensively, the M-Braves jumped on Gonsalves early, as Ronald Acuña Jr. narrowly missed a homer off the top of the wall in left-center. Finally, in the fourth, Mississippi plated two runs with two doubles from Joe Odom and Connor Lien, all with two outs. But the offense stranded seven runners in the game, and was ultimately held hitless from the seventh on.
Odom went 3-for-4 at the plate with two doubles and his first RBI of the season. Acuna added two hits, but the M-Braves could not find the timely hit to score enough runs. Mississippi travels to Mobile to start a five-game series against the BayBears on July 4. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 PM.
Chattanooga 4-9-0
Mississippi 2-8-0
WP: Gonsalves
LP: Pfiefer
SV: Anderson
Attn: 6,532
Time: 2:53