Travis Wood lost his no-hit bid with two outs in the eighth inning Tuesday night in Chattanooga’s 3-1 win over Jacksonville at AT&T Field.

The left-handed starting pitcher had not reached the seventh inning since being called up May 26, and his earned run average in August was 11.32. The second-round pick of the Cincinnati Reds in 2005 entered Tuesday’s game with a 2-8 record and 7.36 ERA but exited after nearly becoming the first Lookouts pitcher with a no-hitter since Travis Buckley in 1996.

“It hasn’t been the smoothest last month, so I just came out today and tried to put it all behind me,” Wood said. “My arm felt good, my location was decent, and my defense was behind me 100 percent.”

The Suns’ Adam Godwin broke up the no-hitter with a double to right-center field that scored Lucas May, who had reached on a walk.

“That’s what Travis is capable of doing,” Lookouts pitching coach Chris Bosio said. “He believed in himself and trusted the guys behind him.”

The Lookouts (24-33) took a lead in the first inning when Chris Heisey doubled to left-center and scored on Chris Valaika’s bloop single to right-center. Heisey tripled to left-center in the third to score Drew Anderson, came home on Tonys Gutierrez’s double to right to make it 3-0 and made a diving catch in center in the fifth to maintain Wood’s gem.

“You know he has a no-hitter going, so in the back of your mind, you’re thinking that if you’ve got a chance to make a play that you’ve got to make it,” Heisey said. “Even if I didn’t think I could have gotten there, I would have still tried to dive.”

Said Wood: “I almost walked out to center to give him a hug.”

Wellman’s scare

Former Lookouts and current Mississippi manager Phillip Wellman was hospitalized with chest pains during Monday night’s game at Carolina. After undergoing several tests and having his blood pressure lowered, Wellman returned Tuesday night to present the lineup and coach third.

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