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Record: 22-26, 5th, 9 GB Quad City

A pinch-hit grand slam from Jose Segura highlighted a five-run top of the seventh inning for St. Louis, and the River Walkers would hold on to defeat Twin Cities 8-5 at Metropolitan Stadium (1977).
The victory gave St. Louis a three-game sweep of the Snow Cats.
Tied 1-1 going into the top of the seventh, three straight singles from Jose Ramirez, Cris Rosario and Jared Thomas off Twin Cities reliever Mitchell Kikenny got things going for the Walkers.
Jordan Gorshans then made it four consecutive singles, scoring Ramirez.
Kikenny got Alek Thomas to pop up for the first out.
But Segura followed with his slam on an 0-1 pitch, lining it 412 feet over the wall in right field.
The Cats would get back into it scoring four runs in the bottom of the eighth on two-run homers from Robbie Mackie (off Yeison Santos) and Drew Bowser (off Travis Krogman).
St. Louis got two of those runs back in the top of the ninth, as Jordan Gorshans hit a two-run homer off Jesse Gaither.
Trey Benton (2-5) turned in another solid start, allowing one run on four hits over six innings.
Tiller pitched a scoreless seventh inning, before getting into trouble in the eighth.
Santos faced three batters and recorded one out, along with the Mackie homer.
Krogman got the eighth inning's other two outs, along with Bowser's homer.
Ernesto Barbosa pitched around a lead-off double by Jeff Friedman in the ninth to record his sixth save.