CHATTANOOGA (Interstat) — Cade Hunter homered and drove in four runs, and the Chattanooga Lookouts used two three-run innings to beat the Rocket City Trash Pandas 12-4 on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, in Southern League (AA) play at AT&T Field. Chattanooga finished with 14 hits, while Rocket City had seven. The Lookouts improved to 58-77, and the Trash Pandas fell to 69-64. Attendance was 6,590, and the game took 2 hours, 46 minutes.

Ryan Garcia earned the win for Chattanooga, allowing four earned runs on five hits over 5 2/3 innings with eight strikeouts. Garcia departed with the lead. Kyle Robinson took the loss for Rocket City. Johnathan Lavallee pitched 2 1/3 innings of one-hit, scoreless relief with three strikeouts, and Will Cannon added a scoreless inning with one hit. Bryce Osmond allowed one earned run on two hits with three strikeouts over 1 2/3 innings for Rocket City.

Rocket City opened the scoring in the top of the first. Arjun Nimmala doubled to right, moved to third on Nick Rodriguez’s groundout and scored on Jake Munroe’s sacrifice fly. Chattanooga answered in the bottom half when Peyton Stovall hit a solo home run to right. The Lookouts then broke the game open in the third. Stovall walked, Julio Carreras singled and Carter Graham launched a three-run homer to right-center for a 4-1 lead. Alfredo Duno added a single later in the inning, but Rocket City escaped further damage.

The Trash Pandas trimmed the deficit in the fourth. Rodriguez singled and Munroe hit a two-run homer to left, making it 4-3. Chattanooga answered with three runs in the bottom of the fourth. Yerlin Confidan doubled, Austin Hendrick doubled him home, Cade Hunter doubled in Hendrick and Stovall doubled in Hunter for a 7-3 advantage. The Lookouts collected four doubles in the inning and sent eight batters to the plate.

Hendrick added a solo homer to right-center in the fifth. Rocket City got one run back in the sixth when Nimmala doubled and scored on Jacob Cozart’s double. Chattanooga put the game away in the seventh. Ruben Ibarra homered to left-center, Cam Collier doubled, Confidan singled and Hunter hit a three-run homer to center that scored Collier and Confidan, pushing the lead to 12-4. The Lookouts also got a stolen base from Confidan in the inning.

Hunter finished 2-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs. Graham went 1-for-4 with a three-run homer. Stovall was 2-for-4 with a solo homer and two RBIs. Hendrick went 2-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs. For Rocket City, Munroe was 1-for-3 with a homer and three RBIs, and Nimmala went 2-for-4 with two doubles and two runs scored. Cozart added an RBI double, while Eddie Micheletti Jr. had a late single. Chattanooga’s bullpen held Rocket City scoreless over the final three innings.

The loss ended a three-game winning streak for Rocket City in the series. The Trash Pandas had won 7-5 on Thursday, 18-9 on Wednesday and 11-6 on Tuesday at Chattanooga. The Lookouts snapped that run and improved their home record at AT&T Field. The teams are scheduled to continue the series Saturday, Sept. 12, and Sunday, Sept. 13, in Chattanooga. Rocket City remains in the Southern League playoff chase with a 69-64 mark, while Chattanooga sits at 58-77. Chattanooga took advantage of two Rocket City errors and finished with 14 hits.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Rocket City 5, Chattanooga 2, and Interstat’s ELO system had given Rocket City a 52.3 percent probability to win. The Lookouts instead delivered the decisive innings and finished with the win.