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Old 03-29-2022, 05:39 AM   #2025
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Walkers news: May 26 -- Twin Cities 9, St. Louis 8

Record: 26-22, 3rd, 6 GB Springfield
Daniel Sanabria connected for a two-run double with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning of St. Louis closer Craig Fritzler to help lift Twin Cities to a 9-8 win and a three-game sweep of the River Walkers at Target Field (2010).
Leading 8-7 going into the bottom of the eighth, Shane King got things rolling with a lead-off double off Walkers reliever Greg Sones.
Mike Wardlow was then given an intentional walk.
Mike Sartain followed with a fly out to left.
Fritzler, who had not blown a save all season, then entered the game and got pinch-hitter Bill Walter to hit into a fielder's choice Sartain being eliminated at second.
Sanabria followed with a hard shot down the right-field line to score both runners as the Snow Cats moved in front.
St. Louis appeared to take control of the game when it scored six times in the top of the third against Cats starting pitcher Vern De san miguel.
Zach Wenman and Abdul-Nasser bin Amr had the big hits, driving in two runs each. Wenman with a double and bin Amr a single.
The Cats struck right back with three runs in the bottom of the third against Walkers starter Brad Monroe.
Sanabria drove in the inning's first run with a double. Jesse Lemming made it 7-4 with a two-run triple.
An RBI single from Nick Shaw in the top of the fourth off Andres Alvares put the Walkers in front 8-4.
Twin Cities clawed back with a solo homer from Victor Machado off Monroe in the fifth.
Pinch-hitter Andy Muir plated a pair with a sixth-inning double off Jesse Gaither to make it 8-7.
De san Miguel lasted just three innings, allowing three runs o six hits.
After that, it was Alvares who allowed a run in the fourth.
Ed Saddler worked a scoreless fifth and recorded the first out of the sixth.
Mike Harney held St. Louis scoreless to finish the sixth and kept it off the board in the seventh.
Nate Wilson and Danny Patino wrapped up the game by retiring all three batters they faced in the eighth and ninth.
Wilson (3-1) got the win. Patino notched his sixth save.
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