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Walkers news: April 30 -- St. Louis 6, Dayton 2
Record: 14-11, 3rd, 3.5 GB Cedar Rapids
Angel Tiburcio turned in a strong start helping hold Dayton to one run over the first six innings, and St. Louis completed a four-game sweep of the Pilots with a 6-2 win at Busch Stadium (2006).
The victory capped an impressive second half of the season's opening month for the River Walkers, who after 1-10 to begin the season went 13-1 in their last 14 games.
Like the rest of the St. Louis starting staff, Tiburcio seems to have found himself a groove after a rough start to his season.
While he didn't get credit for a quality start, the veteran right-hander did allow just one run on three hits in the opening 5.1 innings to earn the win.
Tiburcio (2-1) struck out four and didn't walk a batter.
With two runners aboard and one out, Nick Ruffalo retired the only two Dayton batters he faced to end the inning and keep St. Louis ahead 3-1.
Greg Sones pitched a scoreless seventh inning.
The Pilots did get to Luke Dunkin for a run in the eighth, making it 6-2.
Zachary Stella held the Pilots scoreless in the ninth.
Trailing 1-0, the River Walkers went in front for good with a pair of runs in the bottom of the third.
Eric Peretz struck first with his first homer of the season, a one-out shot off Pilots starter Mike Fowler.
Nick Shaw scored the second run after he singled with two outs.
He scored on a Freudis Nova double.
Nova drove in another run in the fifth, his two-out single off Fowler scoring Shaw again to make it 3-1.
St. Louis busted the game open with a three-run sixth.
All the runs scored with two outs.
Jose Segura collected the first RBI with a single off Jose Infante.
The other two belonged to Nick Shaw, who followed the Segura single with a single of his own.
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