2039 and beyond -- St. Louis River Walkers thread

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Record: 20-25, 6th, 8 GB Cedar Rapids
Chicago jumped on St. Louis rookie starter Juan Farias with three runs in the bottom of the first inning and the G-Men never took their foot off the gas in a 14-0 rout at Wrigley Field (1938).
The victory completed a three-game sweep for Chicago and was the fifth straight loss suffered by the River Walkers.
Farias retired the G-Men's Tony Nolasco to lead off the game, but the next four hitters all reached base beginning with a walk to Ken Turner.
Josh Rosborough followed with a single.
Back-to-back doubles from Val Moreno and Alfredo Cano, the latter scoring two runs, then made it 3-0.
Chicago grew its lead to 4-0 in the bottom of the third.
Rosborough tripled off Farias with one out. He scored on a Moreno single.
The game offiically became a rout an inning later, when Moreno hit a grand slam off Farias as Chicago's advantage reached 8-0.
Farias exited the game after that inning with a shoulder injury. He is expected to miss up to three weeks.
The G-Men did the rest of their scoring with a six-run seventh.
Willie Rubio drove in the first run with a single off Victor Roisles.
Nolasco followed with a three-run homer.
The Walkers then put infielder Daylen Reyes on the mound.
They got to him for a pair of runs, both scoring on a Kyren Paris single.
Chicago starting pitcher Joel Wisniewski went six scoreless innings, allowing four hits. He struck out six and didn't walk a batter.
After that, it was a scoreless inning apiece from Bill Webb, Clayton Ganley and Nate Guthrie to wrap up the win.

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The St. Louis River Walkers have placed rookie right-handed pitcher Juan Farias on the 14-day injured list after he suffered an elbow injury while pitching in a 14-0 loss to Chicago on May 22.
Farias, 26, had gone 2-1 in seven starts for the Walkers posting a 4.69 ERA. He pitched a total of 40.1 innings, during which he struck out 40 and posted a 1.21 WHIP.
Getting the callup from AAA is 33-year-old right-handed pitcher Alex Rios.
Rios had been serving as a starting pitcher for the Redbirds having one 6-2 with a 1.49 ERA in nine starts.
He had pitched a total of 66.1 innings, during which he had posted a 0.98 WHIP and struck out 63.
Also, the Walkers announced that right-hander Xavier Wigfall has suffered setback as he tries to return from an elbow injury.
Wigfall, 30, last pitched on April 13 in a 7-3 loss to Kansas City.
He made two starts before the injury posting no decisions.
Wigfall has pitched 8.1 innings, during which he struck out eight and had a 0.72 WHIP.

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MBL news: May 23 -- Week 9 - Awards and standings

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Record: 21-25, 6th, 8 GB Cedar Rapids
St. Louis jumped in front with three runs off Rockford starting pitcher Jimmy DaPra and never trailed while snapping a five-game losing streak with a 9-4 win at RFK Stadium (2005).
Kerry Fackelman got things going with a one-out triple off DaPra.
He scored when Joe Allen followed with a single.
Right after that, it became 3-0 as Nick Shaw hit his sixth home run of the season.
The Lightning David Blanton made it 3-1 with a homer off River Walkers starter Miguel Cisneros in the bottom of the first.
Making his first at bat of the season at the major league level, Rich Dodson gave St. Louis a 4-1 lead with a one-out homer off DaPra in the top of the second.
Rockford got within 4-2 with a run in the bottom of the third.
Matt Weaver led off the inning with a double and scored on a two-out single by Erik Stowe.
A bases-loaded walk to Jose Ramon by the Lightning's Justin Wrobelski in the top of the sixth gave St. Louis a 5-2 advantage.
Wade Martin made it 5-3 with a homer off Cisneros in the bottom of the sixth.
The Walkers finally busted it open by scoring twice in both the eighth and ninth.
Ryan Wibbenmeyer had a pinch-hit RBI single off Jose Tapia in the eighth.
Fackelman drove in the other run with a two-out single.
Mark Herman hit his third homer of the season in the ninth off Michael Walgren.
Zach Wenman drove in Chris Gibbs, who had walked, for the final St. Louis run.
Stowe led off the ninth with a homer off the struggling Frank Jimenez.
Jimenez later allowed a one-out single and walk before being pulled.
Brett McVey took over and hit a batter to load the bases.
But he retired the next two to end it.
Cisneros (2-3) worked six innings, allowing three runs on four hits. He struck out four and walked one.
Maximilliano Minelli and Ron Cox both worked scoreless innings in relief.
Jimenez and McVey handed the ninth.

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The St. Louis River Walkers have placed catcher Alex Boychuk on the 14-day injured list after he suffered a strained oblique in a 9-4 win at Rockford on May 23.
St. Louis signed the 37-year-old Boychuk in the off-season in the hopes he could be the team’s starting catcher.
But Boychuk has struggled at the plate hitting just .163 with four homers and 14 RBIs in 23 games
Boychuk is expected to miss up to three weeks.
Getting the callup from AAA Memphis is 36-year-old Mike Vaughn.
Vaughn has played in 11 games/10 starts for the Redbirds this season, hitting .379 with two RBIs.

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The St. Louis River Walkers have announced the firing of Christian Colonel as hitting coach and the hiring of Phil Cerreto as his replacement.
Colonel was in his fifth season as the Walkers hitting coach but had seen the team average drop to a low .237 this season.
The Walkers had hit .271 as a team in 2038 and no lower than .262 in its four season under Colonel.
The 51-year-old Cerreto has never worked above the minor leagues.

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The game between the St. Louis River Walkers and Rockford Lightning at RFK Stadium (2005) has been postponed by rain.
It will be made up as part of a doubleheader on May 25.

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Record: 21-26, 6th/(Tied/w. Springfield), 7.5 GB Cedar Rapids
Melvin Chavez limited St. Louis to one run over the first 5.1 innings, and the Rockford bullpen blanked the River Walkers the rest of the way as the Lighting claimed Game 1 of a doubleheader 4-1 at RFK Stadium (2005).
Chavez (4-1) allowed one run on three hits in the 5.1 innings. He was on the mound. He struck out six and walked three.
The lone Walkers run came in the top of the sixth when Manuel Coke led off with a single off Chavez.
Coke scored when Zach Wenman singled off reliever Sam Gibb with two outs.
Gibb left after getting one out in the sixth.
Steve Nilsen finished the sixth and worked a scoreless seventh.
Danny Wright handled the eighth.
Matt Whitmore worked a scoreless ninth for his 12th save.
The Lightning went up 1-0 when Javy Monjaraz homered off St. Louis starter Ming Xiang with two outs in the second.
David Blanton drew a lead-off walk from Xiang in the fourth and scored on an Ernesto Ferreras triple.
Back-to-back homers from Shea Langeliers and Joel Petrucci off Maximilano Minelli to open the seventh capped the scoring for Rockford.

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Record: 21-27, 7th, 8 GB Cedar Rapids
Down 2-1, Rockford scored twice in the bottom of the ninth inning to defeat St. Louis 3-2 and complete a doubleheader sweep at RFK Stadium (2005).
The win gave the Lightning wins in the final two games of the three-game series.
Left-hander Leo Hermosillo came out to open the bottom of the ninth and face the left-handed hitting Ernesto Ferreras.
He walked him.
Closer Craig Fritzler took over.
He proceeded to blow his sixth save of the season, two more than all of the 2038 season.
Yui Watanabe started it with a walk.
Javy Monjaraz followed with a single to load the bases.
Fritzler, who is averaging 7.2 walks per nine innings, then walked Greg Bernier to bring in the tying run.
Fritzer was then told to take a hike in favor of Brett McVey.
Joel Petrucci hit a grounder with Watanbe being thrown out at the plate.
But Bill Morris ended it with a single to left.
St. Louis took a 2-1 lead in the top of the sixth.
Joe Allen led off with a single off Rockford reliever Jon Diez.
Chris Gibbs followed with a singe,
Allen later scored on a bunt by pitcher Agustin Perdomo.
Rockford starting pitcher Gary Snelling lasted 4.1 innings, allowing one run on five hits. He struck out three and walked three.
Jon Diaz finished the fifth and worked the sixth, allowing the Walkers final run.
After that, Sam Gibb, Jose Tapia and Michael Walgren all pitched scoreless innings.
Walgren (6-1) earned his sixth win of the season.

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Record: 22-27, 7th, 7 GB Cedar Rapids
Ryan Wibbenmeyer went 5 for 5 to help lead a 14-hit St. Louis attack as the River Walkers downed Cedar Rapids 8-3 at Busch Stadium (2006).
Down 2-0 after the Grapplers Eric Gerhardt homered off St. Louis starter Kevin Hrdlicka in the top of the first, Wibbenmeyer led off the bottom of the inning with a double off Cedar Rapids starter Jake Richardson.
Two batters later, Wibbenmeyer had scored after back-to-back singles from Mark Herman and Manuel Coke.
A walk to Nick Shaw loaded the bases.
Herman tied it when he scored while Joe Allen was hitting into a double play.
St. Louis took the lead an inning later, again Wibbenmeyer was involved.
Zach Wenman singled off Richardson.
However, Wenman was thrown out at second when Hrdlicka could not get a bunt down.
Wibbenmeyer then singled moved Hrdlicka to second.
Herman put the Walkers in front with a single to right-center.
A Jose Morillo homer off Hrdlicka in the sixth tied it at 3-3.
Joe Allen quickly untied it when he led the bottom of the inning with a homer off Richardson.
The Walkers broke the game open with four runs in the bottom of the seventh.
Wibbenmeyer got it started with a lead-off single off Elijah Louis.
A two-out walk to Nick Shaw put two runners on base.
A single by Allen then made it 5-3.
Five pitches later, it was 8-3 as Jose Ramon hit a three-run homer.
Hrdlicka (4-3) went six innings, allowing three runs on five hits. He struck out seven and walked one.
Maximilliano Minelli got the first two outs of the seventh.
Ron Cox finished the seventh and worked a scoreless eighth.
Kyle Smarr closed it out with a scoreless ninth.

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Record: 22-28, 7th, 8 GB Cedar Rapids
Tied 3-3, Cedar Rapids scored twice in both the fourth and fifth innings and the Grapplers went on to defeat St. Louis 7-3 at Busch Stadium (2006).
Cedar Rapids put up three runs on St. Louis rookie starter Billy Hermann over the first two innings to go up 3-0.
But the River Walkers tallied once in the bottom of the second and twice in the third on a Manuel Coke homer off Grapplers starter Edwin Rivera to tie it.
However Hermann's rough outing continued into the fourth as Miguel Mato open the top of the fourth inning with a single, stole second and scored on a Jose Morillo single.
A walk to Eric Gerhardt then put runners on first and second.
Hermann retired the next two but could not get out of the inning without a run scoring as Santos Villanueva made it 4-2 with an RBI single.
An inning later, Alex Rios made his 2039 debut at the major-league level.
When the inning was over, he had surrendered a pair of runs on a two-run homer by Miguel Mena
Rivera went six innings, allowing three runs on six hits. He struck out eight and didn't issue a walk.
Dave Vacarri, Antonio Echevaria and Hector Miro all pitched scoreless innings of relief.

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MBL news: May 29 -- All-Star game fan voting update

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Record: 23-28, 7th, 7 GB Cedar Rapids
Miguel Cisnero shut out Cedar Rapids on four hits as St. Louis downed the Grapplers 5-0 at Busch Stadium (2006).
The win gave the River Walkers victories in two of three games in the series.
Cisneros needed just 78 pitches to get through the game. He struck out eight and walked two.
It marked the Walkers' first shut out of the season and Cisneros fifth of his career.
Making just his second major league start, Mike Vaughn tallied the game's first run when he managed a baseball rarity hitting an inside-the-park homer off Grapplers starting pitcher Joel Glenn.
St. Louis added two more runs in the fourth.
Nick Shaw led off the inning with a homer off Glenn.
Manuel Coke followed that hit with a double.
He scored on a Kerry Fackelman two-out single.
Cisneros collected an RBI in the seventh when he got down a bunt to score Chris Gibbs, who had drawn a one-out walk from Dan Bouwman.
Fackelman collected an RBI in the eighth when he doubled off Elijah Louis, scoring Shaw who had reached on an error by left-fielder Jose Morillo.

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MBL news: May 30 -- Week 10 - Awards and standings

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Record:23-29, 7th, 8 GB Cedar Rapids
Sean Gilley worked six shutout innings and the Quad City bullpen didn't allow St. Louis to score until the ninth inning as the Thunder downed the River Walkers 5-2 at Fenway Park (1976).
Gilley (1-3) allowed just two singles in his time on the mound. He struck out six and walked one.
Aaron Boncek worked a scoreless seventh innings and Corey York did the same in the eighth.
York also got the first two outs of the ninth before giving way to Chris David, who gave up a two-run homer to Nick Shaw, which made the score 5-2.
Angelo Touliatos came on with the bases loaded and struck out Ryan Wibbenmeyer to end the game and earn his 15th save.
The Thunder jumped in front in the bottom of the first against St. Louis starting pitcher Xiang Ming.
Collin Allen doubled with two outs and scored on a Paul Totten single.
QC added its second run in the fourth.
Fontana Felitti opened the inning with a lead-off walk from Xiang.
A passed ball by catcher Zach Wenman would move him to second.
T.J. Latham drove Felitti home with a single.
All the rest of the Thunder's scoring came in the sixth.
Xiang was still on the mound and allowed three of the first four batters to reach base.
The third hit, a Keith Reiter single, plated the inning's first run.
Brett McVey then replaced Xiang only to be greeted by a two-run double by Allen.

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Record: 24-29, 7th, 7 GB Cedar Rapids
Agustin Perdomo limited Quad City to one run on three hits over seven innings to help St. Louis defeat the Thunder 7-1 at Fenway Park (1976).
The only run Perdomo allowed came in the bottom of the second inning, Jim Waldron drove in Fontana Felitti, who had led off the inning with a single, with a two-out single to put the Thunder ahead 1-0.
For the game, Perdomo (4-3) struck out five and walked four.
St. Louis tied it in the top of the third against QC starter Benito Diaz.
Kerry Fackelman scored the run after reaching on a one-out single.
A Manuel Coke single move Fackelman to third.
He scored when Nick Shaw reached on an error by shortstop Jim Waldron.
The Walkers took the lead with a pair of runs in the fifth.
Reliever Andres Yanez was on the mound.
Ryan Wibbenmeyer doubled with one out.
He moved to third when catcher T.J. Latham allowed a passed ball.
Coke then drove Wibbenmeyer homer with a double.
Shaw made it two straight doubles, with his scoring Coke to make it 3-1.
St. Louis tallied two more times in the seventh.
Shaw collected another RBI when his single drove in the inning's first run.
Mark Herman plated the other with a double.
Coke capped the scoring in the ninth with a two-run homer off Aaron Boncek.
After Perdomo exited following the seventh inning, Brett McVey pitched a scoreless eighth.
Alex Rios loaded the bases in the ninth, but didn't allow a run.

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MBL news: June 1 -- Players and Pitchers of the Month for May

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MBL news: June 1 -- Rookies of the Month for June and standings

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MBL news: June 1 -- American League leaders

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MBL news: June 1 -- National League leaders