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Record: 33-22, 1st, 2 GA Cedar Rapids
Twin Cities came to St. Louis with the best record in the Midwest Baseball League, and they were quick to prove way chasing River Walkers starter Jesse McNaboe by scoring six runs in less than 2.1 innings on its way to a 10-5 win at Busch Stadium (1997).
The Snow Cats bombarded McNaboe for three runs in the first inning -- Mike Sartain had an RBI double, Jeff Freidman and RBI single and Robbie Mackie drove in the middle run with a ground out -- and one in the second -- Brock Banks led off the inning with a single, moved to second on a Patrick Winkel single and scored on a sac fly by pitcher Keith Brennan -- to go up 4-0.
They than chased Brennan three batters into the third inning, Waddell connecting on a two-run homer to make it 6-1.
Twin Cities lead grew to 9-1 in the fifth inning against the St. Louis' bullpen.
Waddell drove in another run with a double, his coming off Ricky Cisneros.
Banks and Drew Bowser had RBI singles off Andres Hernandez.
The Walkers did make it somewhat interesting by scoring four times in the bottom of the fifth.
Jordan Groshans and Rick Scott went back-to-back with a three-run and solo homer.
But that was the end of the scoring for St. Louis.
Despite the big lead, Cats starting pitcher Keith Brennan didn't last long enough to earn the win.
He allowed one run on five hits ovee 4.1 innings and exited after throwing 83 pitches.
It took five pitchers to complete the somewhat lopsided contest -- Noah Cutrona, Bobby Lozoya (1.0), Brian Hollister (1.2), Eric Watkins (1.0) and Jesse Gaither (1.0) -- with Lozoya (5-0) coming out of it with the win.