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Walkers news: August 1 -- Cedar Rapids 6, St. Louis 3
Record: 56-46, 1st, 3 GA Springfield
It's one 4-3 lead cut down to a run, Cedar Rapids scored twice in the bottom of the seventh inning to help give the Golden Grapplers a 6-3 win over St. Louis at Shibe Park (1949).
Cedar Rapids put together four runs over the first three innings - one in the first, two in the second and one in the third -- to go up 4-1.
But St. Louis would slice it to a run in the top of the fourth.
Jean Carmona with a two-run triple off Cedar Rapids starter Sean Harp.
The Walkers, however, would not score again.
Cedar Rapids then got its comfortable lead back again by scoring twice in the seventh.
Pinch-hitter Enrique Bradfield led off with a double off reliever Williams Jerez and scored on an one-out double from Jerrion Early off Luis Palomo.
Jose Leyva would later scored Early with a two-out single.
Cedar Rapids first-inning run came on a Dominic Smith double off Walkers starter Steven Brault.
Matt McLain, who had led off the inning with a single, scored on the hit.
McLain had a two-run single in the second to make it 3-1.
Leyva singled with one out off Brault in the third and scored on a two-out single from James Gamble.
Golden Grapplers starter Sean Harp lasted just four innings, allowing three runs on six hits.
However, a quartet of relievers prevented the Walkers from scoring again.
Dave Schaeffer (1-0) handled the first two innings and would earn the win.
Thomas Burrows, Evan Palmer and Jose Leclerc all worked an inning apiece.
Leclerc earned his 15th save.
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