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Record: 53-31, 1st (Tied/w. Des Moines), 8 GA Cedar Rapids
Jose Ramirez hit a two-run home run in the top of the fifth inning to put St. Louis ahead 3-2, and the River Walkers went on for a 4-2 win over Cedar Rapids at Oracle Park (2020).
The Railers scored an unearned run in the bottom of the third inning on an error by St. Louis first baseman Nick Shaw to tie it at 1-1.
Billy Salas led off the bottom of the fourth with a double off St. Louis starting pitcher Kaneo Kawamoto, and he later scored on an Austin Wells fly ball as Springfield went ahead 3-2.
Ramirez turned that around in the fifth with his homer.
Alex Greene drew a one-out walk from former Walkers pitcher, and now Railers starter Wilson Lara, just ahead of Ramirez.
Ramirez hit a 1-2 pitch crushed a ball 443 feet over the wall in right-center for his 22nd homer of the season.
Jae-hong Chang added an insurance run with a pinch-hit homer off Jon Santiago with one out in the top of the eighth.
Kawamoto (4-5) allowed two runs on five hits over seven innings. He struck out eight and didn't walk a batter.
Josh Grissom worked a scoreless eighth inning.
Ernesto Barbosa pitched around a two-out single in the ninth for his 23rd save.