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Walkers news: April 6 -- St. Louis 3, Louisville 2
Record: 4-1, 1st (Tied/w. Quad City), 0.5 GA Springfield
St. Louis won in walk-off fashon for the second consecutive game, as Jordan Groshans homered off Louisville reliever Tony Ramirez with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the River Walkers a 3-2 win at Busch Stadium (1997).
Groshans' first homer of the season came on a 2-2 pitch, it traveled 404 feet over the wall in left.
A two-run homer from Danny del Toro off Walkers starter Robby Albarran in the top of the second put the Sluggers in front 2-0.
St. Louis didn't get on the scoreboard until the bottom of the seventh against Louisville reliever Joe Wahl.
Wahl had replaced starter Jim Martin with one out in the bottom of the seventh.
In 6.1 innings, Martin shutout the Walkers on three hits. He struck out nine, walked none and had thrown 98 pitches.
Jared Thomas set things on motion for St. Louis with a two-out double.
A wild pitch moved him to third, and Thomas scored on a Groshans single.
An inning later, the Walkers tied it.
Thairo Estrada and Alek Thomas led off the inning with consecutive singles off Wahl.
Perched on third, Estrada scored on a Jose Ramirez sacrifice fly.
Albarran worked 5.1 innings for St. Louis, allowing two runs on six hits.
Travis Krogman got out of a jam to finish the six.
David Amador got the first out of the seventh, before giving way to Jose Alvarado, who recorded the next four outs.
Ricky Cisneros (1-0) completed the eighth inning, and worked a scoreless ninth to set himself up for the win.
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