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Record: 33-22, 1st (Tied/w. Des Moines), 1 GA Cedar Rapids
Rookie Jerry Tate won his fourth consecutive start, allowing one run over 6.1 innings, as St. Louis defeated Cleveland 6-3 at Cleveland Stadium (1980).
Tate (4-1) allowed one run on four hits over his 6.1 innings. He struck out two and walked the same.
The River Walkers scored single runs in the first, third, fourth and sixth innings to build a 4-0 lead.
Nathaniel Dixon led off the game with a single off Juke Box Heroes starter Daniel Vasquez and later scored on a Nate Shaw single.
Two innings later, Thairo Estrada led off the inning with a homer off Vasquez,
Jovan Gill singled with one out in the fourth off Vasquez.
He was eliminated when Armando Morales hit into a fielder's choice.
A Tate single moved Morales to third.
Morales scored when Cleveland catcher Tony Jackson allowed a passed ball with Dixon at the plate.
Jae-hong Chang doubled with one out in the sixth off Vasquez.
It also ended Vasquez's time on the mound.
A wild pitch by reliever Jay Flury moved Chang to third.
Gill drove home Chang with a single.
Tate exited after allowing a pair of singles -- to Tony Jackson and Will Holland in the seventh -- and Adrian Hernandez made it 4-1 with a sac fly off Josh Grissom.
But Dixon hit a two-run homer off Omari Gordon in the top of the ninth, making it 6-1.
So it really did not matter, when rookie Kevin Baker gave up a pair of runs in the ninth,
Although, it did mean RIcky Cisneros had to come in and get Joel Petrucci to ground out to end it.
Cisneros earned his second save.