[rink23]

Record: 77-59, 1st, 5 GA Des Moines
Jimmy Lambert and a quartet of relievers combined on a four-hit shutout as St. Louis downed Chicago 6-0 in the opening game of a doubleheader at Busch Stadium (1997).
The contest was the makeup of a rain-out earlier in the season at Wrigley Field, making the River Walkers the visitors despite playing at home.
Lambert (6-8) allowed three hits over 5.1 scoreless innings. He struck out four and walked one.
Lambert exited the game in the sixth with runners at the corners and one out.
John Curtiss took over and got the only batter he would face, G-Men clean-up hitter Cruz Calderon, to ground into an inning-ending double play.
Williams Jerez got the first two outs of the seventh inning, before giving way to Angel Tiburcio who struck out Michael Mateja with two runners aboard to keep it scoreless.
With the Walkers up 6-0, Argenis Batista needed just six batters to get through the final two innings to end it.
Facing one of the top pitchers in the MBL in Shohei Ohtani, St. Louis got the only runs it would need in the top of the third when Carlos Vidal hit a three-run homer.
The Walkers chased Ohtani in the fifth after JT Schwartz led off the inning with a homer.
St. Louis added two insurance runs in the eighth against the Chicago bullpen. Jared Thomas drove in the first run with a double. Vidal Brujan plated the other with a sacrifice fly.