CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — For the second start in a row, Bryant's Travis Wood wound up with a no-decision for the Class AA (Cincinnati Reds) Carolina Mudcats on Friday night.
Wood, 8-3, left the game after six innings on the mound with the score deadlocked at 2-2 against the Chattanooga Lookouts. Chattanooga scored two runs in the seventh and held off a Carolina rally in the top of the ninth to extract a 4-3 win.
Wood allowed two runs, only one earned, on four hits with one walk and four strikeouts in his six innings. One of the hits was a solo homer by Russell Mitchell to lead off the second inning.
The left-hander still leads the Southern League with a 1.37 earned run average. He's tied for the league lead in wins and innings pitched (105) and he's second in strikeouts with 86. (The leader, Scott Elbert of Chattanooga, has 87.)
In a fashionable new stat, Wood has the league's best WHIP (walks, 36, plus hits, 71, per innings pitched, 105) at 1.02. Opponents are hitting just .193 against him.
