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Record: 28-42, 7th, 14.5 GB Des Moines
Dayton jumped out to 2-0 lead with runs in the top of the first and third innings, and held on for a 3-2 win over St. Louis at Busch Stadium (2006).
The Pilots' Mike Wardlaw led off the game with a double off River Walkers starting pitcher Xavier Wigfall and scored two batters later on a Nick Bitsko fly ball.
Wardlow was at it again in the third.
This time he led off with a single off Wigfall.
He moved to third on a Bobby Carrasco double.
With two outs, the hot-hitting Baek-ho Kang was given an intentional walk.
Four pitches later, Matt Freudenberg drew an unintentional walk to score Wardlow.
A lead-off homer from the Walkers' Jose Ramirez off Dayton starter Mark MacDougall got St. Louis on the board.
The Pilots got that run back when Wardlow scored for the third time in the seventh.
He drew a lead-off walk from reliever Scott Rissler.
A one-out single from Nick Bitsko moved Wardlow to second.
Kang made it 3-1 with a two-out single off Nick Ruffalo.
An RBI single from Jared Thomas in the bottom of the eighth drew St. Louis to within 3-2.
The Thomas hit left runners at first and second with no outs..
But Justin Roberson got Glenallen Hill Jr. to hit into a double play.
Pinch-hitter Nathaniel Dixon then flew out to end the inning.
St. Louis had a chance in the ninth following a lead-off double from Alex Greene off Jason Pappas.
A Kyren Paris bunt moved Greene to third.
But Roberson struck out Jose Ramirez and Jae-hong Chang to end it.
MacDougall (7-5) earned the win after allowing one run on five hits in the first five innings. He struck out five and walked one.
Cruz Calderon worked a pair of scoreless innings.
Roberson allowed the one run in the eighth.
Pappas notched his 20th save.