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Walkers news: April 20 -- Peoria 6, St. Louis 4
Record: 5-9, 5th (Tied/w. Quad City), 5.5 GB Des Moines
Bao-qing Chou hit a walk-off pinch-hit home run with nobody outs in the bottom of the ninth off St. Louis closer Ernesto Barbosa, to give Peoria a 6-4 win at Globe Life Park.
Barbosa failed to retire any of the batters he faced in the ninth, allowing singles to Victor Solano and Jon Leon before Chou belted the first pitch he saw 395 feet over the wall in right field to win it for the Rivermen.
Down 3-0 after Peoria had scored three times in the bottom of the first off St. Louis starter Xavier Wigfield, the Walkers took a 4-3 lead in the top of the eighth on a two-run homer from Nathaniel Dixon off Peoria starter Enrique Castillo.
A two-run double from Ryan Palmer had highlighted the Rivermen's three-run outburst.
Castillo allowed four runs on six hits over 7.1 innings. He struck out eight and didn't walked a batter.
Joey Simmons recorded the final four outs for Peoria, striking out three of them.
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