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Walkers news: Oct. 5 -- St. Louis 4, Madison 2
Record: 97-55, 1st, 11 GA Cedar Rapids
Rick Scott homered twice and St. Louis wrapped up its regular season with a 4-2 win over Madison at Busch Stadium (1997).
The victory gave the River Walkers two wins in their three games with the Muskies.
Up next, the National League Championship Series where St. Louis will host Twin Cities in Game 1 of the Best-of-5 series at Busch Stadium.
Scott's first homer came in the bottom of the second inning off Madison starter Alex Gallegos, giving the Walkers a 1-0 lead.
The second was part of a back-to-back with Ben Thompson in the bottom of the sixth, Scott supplying the second, to put St. Louis ahead 3-2.
Jeff Munn surrendered both sixth-inning homers.
Scott finished the regular season with 36 homers.
St. Louis added an insurance run in the seventh, Scott collecting his third RBI of the game by drawing a bases-loaded walk from Nick Lewis.
Rich Haas got a callup from AAA Memphis to start the regular-season finale.
He pitched the first five innings, allowing two runs on five hits. He struck out five and walked one.
Josh Grissom pitched a scoreless sixth inning.
Yeison Santos (0.2 IP) and Robby Albarran (0.1) combined to do the same in te seventh.
Elian Acosta walked two batters, but didn't let Madison score in the eighth,
Ernesto Barbosa also walked two in the ninth, but didn't give up a run to end his regular season with 28 saves.
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