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Record: 56-47, 3.5 GA Springfield and Des Moines
St. Louis' offense broke out of a three-game losing streak putting up 11 runs in an 11-5 win over Kansas City at Busch Stadium (1997).
Down 1-0, the River Walkers took the lead in the top of the third when Andrew Benintendi connected for a two-out, two run home run off Pit Masters starting pitcher Dominic Pipkin.
Kansas City seized the lead back an inning later, Yordan Alvarez hitting a two-run shot off Walkers ace Alex Faedo.
But that deficit was gone by the time the bottom of the fourth inning ended.
The Walkers banged out four singles in the inning off Pipkin, including run-scoring two-out hits from Faedo and Carlos Vidal.
Kansas City tied it again in the fifth, after Danny Cushing tripled and scored on a Jayson Gonzalez single.
St. Louis, however, continued the back and forth in the fifth.
Rhys Hoskins drew a one-out walk, and found his away to third on a Jared Thomas single.
Fernando Tatis Jr. scored Hoskins with a long fly ball.
This time, though, St. Louis would not be tied or trail again.
The Walkers finally broke the game open with a five-run seventh.
Four walks and two singles opened the inning -- Jean Carmona drove in a run with his bases-loaded walk, while Bo Bichette did the same with a single -- JT Schwartz then doubled to score two more.
All of this came off Masters relief pitcher Mike Tucker.
Carlos Vidal drove in the final run of the outburst with a sacrifice fly.
Faedo (11-4) didn't have one of his better games of the season -- he allowed four runs on 11 hits over 5.1 innings - -but still came out of it with the win.

Six relievers -- Williams Jerez (0.1 IP), Luis Palomo (0.1), Nick Lodolo (0.1), Angel Tiburcio (0.2), John Curtiss (1.1) and Edwin Diaz (0.2) -- combined to close out the win which ended a three-game losing streak.