The Chattanooga Lookouts are nearing an opening-night sellout after ticket sales went live Tuesday morning.
As of 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, only 109 tickets remained for the inaugural game at Erlanger Park, which is April 14 against the Montgomery Biscuits. The only tickets available were concourse passes, which includes berm seating. All reserved seating sold out Tuesday.
“If it’s not today, I think it’ll be tomorrow, but we’re really close to it,” Rich Mozingo, the team’s president, said about a sellout.
Dan Kopf, the director of marketing for the Lookouts, said the team sold 4,000 reserved-seat tickets for the opener, a figure that doesn’t include partial plans, season tickets or group-area sales.
“We thought there was going to be great demand out there, and we thought we would sell out the game,” Mozingo said. “The speed in which it sold out was a little bit more than I expected, so we were super pleased about that.”
The Lookouts experienced a massive increase in first-day ticket sales from 2025, the team’s 26th and final season at AT&T Field. Kopf said they sold seven tickets on the first day of ticket sales for the 2025 season. On Tuesday, they sold 1,911 tickets in the first hour they were live.
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The past couple days have brought back memories for Mozingo of two other years the Lookouts experienced a surge in ticket sales for opening day: 2000 and 1994.
The Lookouts opened AT&T Field in 2000, so no surprise there, but what could have caused fans to rush to snatch up tickets in 1994?
It was the lone year basketball great Michael Jordan played professional baseball. His trip to Chattanooga’s Engel Stadium as a member of the Birmingham Barons was his first game as a visiting player.
“Of the three, this one’s been pretty spectacular,” Mozingo said. “This one’s really been spectacular, but I’ve had the great fortune of being involved in three really, really, really cool opening days.”
The Lookouts, who are the Double-A affiliate of Major League Baseball’s Cincinnati Reds and compete in the Southern League, will open the regular season with back-to-back road series in Georgia and Alabama: three games against the Columbus Clingstones from April 3-5, then six games against Birmingham from April 7-12.
The home opener against Montgomery — one of 69 regular-season games scheduled for Erlanger Park in 2026, as well as the start of a six-game series with the Biscuits from April 14-19 — is set for 7 p.m.
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Staff file photo by Matt Hamilton / Rich Mozingo, the president of the Chattanooga Lookouts, said he has been impressed by the speed in which tickets have sold for the inaugural game at Erlanger Park.
TICKETS, PLEASE
Ticket prices (including additional fees) for the first week of Chattanooga Lookouts games at Erlanger Park on April 14-19.
— Berm (concourse pass): $9
— Right-field porch: $14
— Corner reserved: $16
— Baseline reserved: $18.50
— Cabana: $19.90
— Dugout reserved: $20.50
— Diamond reserved: $22.50