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St. Louis leads series 2-0.
Jean Segura hit a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the 10th inning off Twin Cities relief pitcher Jose Liranzo to give St. Louis a 7-4 win in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series at Busch Stadium (1997).
The victory gave the River Walkers a 2-0 lead in the best-of-5 series.
St. Louis entered the bottom of the 10th trialing 3-2.
Roc Riggio had led off the top of the Cats' 10th with a single off St. Louis reliever Ron Peterson.
He later scored on a Robbie Mackie fly ball hit off David Amador.
But in the bottom of the inning, St. Louis would storm back.
Jean Carmona drew a lead-off walk from Gathier to open the inning, and pinch-hitter Alek Thomas folllowed with a single.
A fly ball from Jose Ramirez put runners at the corners.
Pinch-hitter Peter Ahn followed with a single, scoring Carmona to tie it at 3-3.
Liranzo came on and allowed a single to Jared Thomas to again load the bases, and bring Segura to the plate.
On a 2-2 count, Segura powered the ball 417-feet over the wall in right-center to break it wide open.
Down 2-1, the Walkers had tied it on Jean Carmona's solo homer off Brian Hollister in the bottom of the seventh.
Walkers starter Izzy San Juan allowed two runs on six hits over six innings.
Cory Tiller pitched a scoreless sixth.
Peterson, a rookie, worked 2.1 innings allowing one run on one hit.
Danny Amador got the final two outs of the top of the 10th, which was enough to earn him the win.