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Walkers news: Oct. 4 -- Peoria 3, St. Louis 2
Record: 89-72,1st, 11 GA Quad City; NL South Division champions
Drew Bowser staked Peoria to a two-run lead with a home run off St. Louis starting pitcher Danny Burch in the bottom of the third inning, and the Rivermen rode that to a 3-2 win at Globe Life Park.
The win gave Peoria a sweep of the three-game series to complete the regular season.
St. Louis, however, may have to play a makeup game with Columbus although the game will mean nothing in the standings.
That contest is tentatively scheduled for Oct. 4.
Bowser's homer followed a one-out single by Johnny Castagnozzi.
Manuel Coke homered off Peoria starter Seth Sipple in the top of the sixth to make it 2-1.
Randy Underhill got that run back when he homered for the second time in the series, his homer of Maximilliano Minelli with one out in the bottom of the seventh made it 3-1.
St. Louis did score a run in the bottom of the ninth on a two-out single by Zach Wenman off Steve Fitzgerald.
But with runners on first and second, Francisco Perez stepped in and got Bob Saavedra to fly out to end the game.
Sipple (5-8) allowed the one run on five hits over 5.1 innings. He struck out five and walked one.
Mike Fowler finished the sixth for Peoria.
After that, it was a pair of scoreless innings for Alex Rios and Mike Gil.
Fitzgerald (0.2 IP) and Perez (0.1) combined to hold off the Walkers in the ninth.
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