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Record: 1-2, 5th, 2 GB Kansas City
Alex Otero and Ruben Villanueva hit back-to-back home runs in the top of the 10th inning off St. Louis rookie reliever Ron Peterson to help give Springfield a 5-3 win at Busch Stadium (1997).
With wins in the final two games, the Railers claimed the three-game series.
Otero, the reigning National League MVP, struck first off Peterson hitting a 1-0 pitch with one out travelling 447 feet over the center-field fence.
Villanueva's homer came on a 2-1 count, it carried 444 feet, almost to the same spot as Otero.
Down 2-1, the Springfield had gone up 3-2 with a pair of runs off River Walkers starter Zack Hunsicker in the top of the second.
Matthew Lugo drove in the first run with a single.
Riley Greene plated the second but was thrown out at the plate by left fielder Jose Ramirez trying to stretch it to an inside-the-park homer.
St. Louis tied it in the bottom of the ninth when Jose Segura led off with a homer off Mario Reyes.
It was Segura's second homer of the game, as his two-run homer in the first off Springfield starter Raul Ahumada had given the Walkers a brief 2-1 lead.
Ahumada would end up pitching six innings, allowing two runs on five hits.
Joseph King worked a pair of scoreless innings to get the game to the ninth.
Reyes (1-0) blew the save in the ninth, but earned the win.
Chris Hensley earned his first save in the bottom of the 10th.