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Record: 64-55, 1st, 1.5 GA Springfield and Quad City
Down 3-1, St.Louis got home runs in the fourth inning from Andrew Benintendi (a two-run homer) and Larry Ernesto (a solo shot) to grab the lead and the River Walkers went on to a 6-3 win over Quad City at Fenway Park (1970).
The game was supposed to be part of a day/night doubleheader only to have the afternoon game rained out. The doubleheader will be played August 22.
Ronald Acuna Jr. hit a two-run homer off Walkers spot starter Argenis Batista in the bottom of the first, staking the Thunder to a 2-0 lead.
That lead became 3-1 an inning later after Josh Bell walked and came around to score on a ground out by Q-C starter Matt Ruppenthal.
But St. Louis got to Ruppenthal in the top of the fourth, when it took the lead for good.
Ruppenthal walked Rhys Hoskins to open the inning.
Bennintendi followed with a 422-foot blast to tie the game.
Two batters later, Ernesto put one over the right-field wall to put St. Louis in front.
The Walkers continued to use the long ball to extend their lead.
Hoskins was the final batter to face Ruppenthal, as his solo homer in the fifth made it 5-3.
Hoskins collected another RBI in the seventh, his two-out single off reliever Dante Mendoza scoring Vidal Brujan who had led off the inning with a single.
Batista (6-9) would end up pitching six innings, allowing three runs on five hits. He struck out eight and walked one.
Nick Lodolo recorded the first two outs of the seventh inning.
Luis Palomo notched the third and worked a scoreless eighth.
Palomo also started the ninth and recorded the first out before giving up a double to Carter Kieboom.
Rookie Ricky Cisneros took over and allowed a lead-off single to Josh Bell to put runners at the corners.
Miguel Gomez drove in Kieboom with a long fly ball.
But Cisneros got Bradley Zimmer to hit into a fielder's choice to end it and earn his first MBL save.