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Record: 95-64, 1st, 11 GA Cedar Rapids; NL South clinched
Jean Segura hit a walk-off grand slam with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift St. Louis to an 11-8 win over Quad City at Busch Stadium (1997).
The victory gave the River Walkers a sweep of their three-game series against the Thunder.
Down 8-7 entering the bottom of the ninth, Thunder closer Craig Fritzler retired the first two St. Louis hitters.
But things changed when Daniel Becerra and Steve Rossi delivered back-to-back singles.
Jordan Groshans then coaxed a walk to load the bases.
Segura unloaded them when he blasted a 0-1 pitch from Fritzler 416 feet over the right-field wall.
It gave Segura 32 homers for the season.
A back-and-forth game, QC had gone up 8-7 in the top of the seventh when Ben Nelson hit a two-run homer off Walkers reliever Yeison Santos.
In the fifth, St. Louis had turned a 6-5 deficit into that 7-6 lead when Groshans hit his 43rd homer of the season, and second of the game, a two-run round-tripper off Omar Garcia.
Down 5-4, the Thunder had scored twice times in the top of the fifth -- and they didn't need a home run -- to move ahead 6-5
Nelson drove in both the runs with a bases-loaded single off reliever Ricky Cisneros.
.Way earlier, the Thunder had scored four times in the top of the second -- Jacob Gonzalez had a two-run double off Walkers starter Lenyn Crisp -- to go up 4-0.
St. Louis wiped that deficit out with five in the bottom of the third.
Steve Rossi hit a three-run homer and Groshans cranked his first of the game, both off QC starter Danny Garza.
Crisp lasted just 4.1 innings, allowing six runs on five hits. He
Cisneros pitched 1.2 innings, getting the game to the seventh.
Santos (0.2 IP) had his issues in the eighth, and Robby Albarran had to come on to finish the inning.
Argenis Batista (3-3) had his best outing in a while, with two scoreless innings, and came out of it with his third win of the season.