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Record: 68-63, 3rd (Tied/w. Springfield), 4.5 GB Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids scored three runs off St. Louis ace Aaron Nola in the top of the third inning and made it stand up in a 3-2 win at Busch Stadium (1997).
Clint Coulter led off the inning with a single off Nola and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from pitcher Matt Andriese.
A wild pitch moved Coulter to second and a double from Max Schrock chased him home.
Two batters later, Freddie Freeman hit his 18th homer of the year, a 421-foot blast worth two runs, to make it 3-0.
Andriese gave up solo homers to Andrew Benintendi in the fourth and Nicky Delmonico in the fifth innings, allowing the Walkers to crawl to within 3-2.
That was as close as they would get, despite putting two runners aboard in the ninth.
Matt Barnes got Andrelton Simmons to fly out to end it and earn his first save.
Andriese worked five innings, giving up two runs on three hits. He struck out four and walked one.
Four relievers -- Eduardo Paerdes, Aaron Loup, Anyelo Gomez and Barnes -- all worked an inning apiece to close it out.
St. Louis' Michael Conforto left the game after being hit by an Andriese pitch in the knee. He is expected to be slowed for about a week, with the 40-man roster expansion coming up in a day he will not be placed on the disabled list.