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Walkers news: May 31 -- St. Louis 3, Kansas City 1
Record: 31-20, 1st (Tied/w. Des Moines), 2 GA Kansas City
Angel Tiburcio pitched six shutout innings, and the St..Louis bullpen limited Kansas City to one run the rest of the way as the River Walkers won 3-1 at Royals Stadium (1973).
Tiburcio (6-2) allowed just two hits in his six innings. He struck out seven and walked two,
Ricky Cisneros worked a scoreless seventh and got the first out of the eighth,
Andres Hernandez retired the final two batters of the eighth.
The Monarchs did get a solo homer from Jason Gillem in the bottom of the ninth off River Walkers' closer Ernesto Barbosa, but the veteran righty was still able to post his 13th save.
St. Louis jumped in front with a run in the top of the third.
Jovan Gill was hit by a pitch from KC starting pitcher Dominic Pipkin to open the inning.
Gill stole seconjd, and moved to third on a one-out single by Nathaniel Dixon.
Gill scored when Pipkin was called for a balk.
Gill also scored the Walkers' second run.
This time he tripled off Pipkin to lead off the fifth and scored on a Jean Carmona double.
St. Louis got its third run in the seventh.
Nick Shaw led off with a single off reliever Travis Rinker.
A walk to Gill moved Shaw to second, and a bunt from Carmona placed him on third.
Dixon picked up the RBI with a two-out single.
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