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Record: 73-65, 3rd, 11.5 GB Des Moines
Cedar Rapids tallied four runs off St.Louis starting pitcher Brendan Spagnuolo in the top of the fourth inning and rode that momentum to a 6-5 win at Busch Stadium (1997).
With the win, the Golden Grapplers swept the three-game series. Now with four consecutive losses, the River Walkers sit 11.5 games behind first-place Des Moines in the National League South Division with 25 games remaining.
The Grapplers put their first five batters aboard in the fourth to help them break open a scoreless game.
Joc Pederson and Terrin Vavra were part of that string, with RBI singles which combined to make it 2-0.
With two outs, Matt McLain connected on a two-run double extending that lead to 4-0.
Two innings later, Vavra hit a homer off Spagnuolo to push that advantage to 5-0.
St. Louis got back into it, scoring three times in the bottom of the sixth.
Cedar Rapids got that run back in the eighth, when Alex Bregman led off with a single off Brad Hand.
A Pederson double moved him to third.
Sam Cohen then greeted Jake Brentz with a two-out single, putting Cedar Rapids up 6-3.
It was 6-4 after Andrew Benintendi led off the bottom of the eighth with a double and scored on a Jean Carmona triple, all off Jacob Rhame.
But Tyler Bashlor got J.T. Realmuto to hit into a fielder's choice to end the inning still at 6-4.
In the ninth, St. Louis staged another uprising.
Tanner Kohlhepp drew a lead-off walk from Bashlor
After two fly outs, Benintendi singled to move Kohlhepp to second.
Michael Toglia followed with a double, scoring Kohlhepp and landing Benintendi at third.
Cedar Rapids elected to walked Rhys Hoskins to load the bases.
But Bashlor to ground out to end it.
Cedar Rapids starter Carlos Martinez (3-15), who came into the game 2-15, worked five innings giving up three runs on three hits.
Dubin Feltman and Thomas Burrow worked scoreless sixth and seventh innings, respectively.
Rhame got the first two outs of the eighth before giving way to Bashlor.
Bashlor finished the eighth and got out of the ninth without allowing St. Louis to tie it for his sixth save.,