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Record: 10-12, 4th, 4 GB Springfield
Signed in the off-season to fill the closer's role, Tommy Kahnle has had his struggles in the first month of the season, and that continued in St.Louis' 6-5 loss to Springfield at Busch Stadium (1997).
Protecting a 5-4 lead going into the top of the ninth inning, Kahnle allowed the first four batters he faced to reach base to help the Prairie Fighters score a pair of runs to grab the lead.
Pinch-hitter Dylan Cozens led off with a double and Max Schrock followed with an RBI single to tie it.
J.P. Crawford and Freddie Freeman both drew walks to load the bases, before Kahnle struck out Eric S. Campbell for the first out.
But Ryan Mountcastle followed with an infield single, second baseman Bo Bichette fielded the ball but had to eat it, to give Springfield the lead.
Rhys Hoskins drove in a run with a triple and Nicky Delmonico had an RBI double, both off Fighters starting pitcher Josh Hader, in the first inning and the Walkers seized a 3-0 lead.
It was 4-3, however, by the time St. Louis batted in the bottom of the second.
Hader drove in two runs with a double, while Schrock and J.P. Crawford plated one piece, with a single and triple, respectively, off Walkers starter Yu Darvish, as Springfield seized command.
St. Louis tied it at 4 in the sixth on a Nicky Delmonico RBI double off Pablo Lopez.
The Walkers were up 5-4 after seven when Ender Inciarte reached on an error by Crawford at shortstop and later came around to score on a Mason McCullough wild pitch.
Hader went four innings, giving up three runs on four hits.
Lopez handed the fifth and sixth innings.
After that, McCullough, Anyelo Gomez, and Gerson Moreno all went an inning apiece.
Gomez earned his second win of the season. Moreno notched saved No. 6.