Chattanooga, TN --- Carolina's offense continued its early season revival, swatting four homers as part of a 20-hit assault of the Chattanooga Lookouts, leading to a 13-3 victory at Bell South Park on Tuesday night. 

 

Each Mudcat position player had at least two hits, including four from Jeremy Hermida and three by Robert Andino.  The 3-6 hitters in the Mudcats lineup each homered within a four inning span.  In the fifth, James Shanks and Chris Ashby took Brad Cherry deep, while Todd Sears connected for a three-run homer in the sixth against Cherry.  Sears was initially stopped at second base as the umpires conferred.  After Mudcats manager Gary Allenson requested a review, the umpiring crew changed the call and Sears completed circling the bases.  In the eighth, Hermida launched the deepest of the four homers, a solo homer against Lookouts reliever Miguel Saladin, atop the third-level digital message board beyond the right-centerfield power alley. 

 

Carolina's power barrage opened up a 2-1 game after four innings.  Back in the first inning, Lookouts starter Ben Kozlowski was knocked out of the game on a liner by Sears which caught Kozlowski in the mouth, knocking out a tooth and forcing him out of the game. 

 

Josh Johnson (W, 2-1) earned the win with five innings, allowing five hits and one run.  Jerrod Fuell pitched a scoreless sixth, while Luke Lockwood allowed two runs over three innings to earn the save. 

 

Carolina has scored 20 runs in two games in Chattanooga, and moved to 8-3, remaining in the Northern Division lead.

 

Wednesday's third game of the series is at 12:15 PM ET with Scott Olsen (2-0, 0.00) starting against Lookouts righty Richie Gardner (1-0, 5.00) at Bell South.

 

CAROLINA            1 0 1   0 4 3   0 1 3   ---   13   20   0   10

CHATTANOOGA    0 1 0   0 0 0   0 1 1   ---    3   10   1   11

 

WP - Johnson (2-1)

LP - Schmidt (0-1)

S - Lockwood (1)

 

HR - Shanks (2), Ashby (1), Sears (1), Hermida (3)

 

Time:  3:02

Att:  2,897