Walkers news: June 20 -- Louisville 5, St. Louis 4
Record: 38-56, 7th, 15.5 GB Des Moines
Zachary Fuller limited St. Louis to one run over 6.1 innings to help Louisville complete a three-game sweep with a 5-4 win at Dodger Stadium.
Down 1-0, the Sluggers grabbed the lead in the bottom of the second inning thanks to back-to-back home runs from Tom Blevins and Bobby Chapman off River Walkers starting pitcher Ricky Cisneros.
Louisville expanded its lead to 5-1 with three runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Cole Turney led off the inning with a triple off Cisneros and scored when Jacob Campbell followed with a single.
Jario Diaz followed with another single.
Fuller got down a bunt to put runners on second and third.
After a fly out, Hisanori Yasuda made it 4-1 with a single to score Campbell.
That ended Cisneros' time on the mound.
Scott Rissler took over and was greeted by a Dan Boyle single, which made it 5-1.
St. Louis did make it close.
Nathaniel Dixon hit a two-run homer off reliever Rafael Espinoza in he seventh.
The Walkers added another run in the ninth -- Daniel Becerra led off the inning with a single and Dixon followed with a RBI double --- but Brian Rose, after the rough start, struck out the next three to end it.
Fuller (5-10) allowed one run on three hits in 6.1innings. He struck out five and walked one.
Rafael Espinoza got the final two outs of the seventh, allowing the Dixon homer.
Joe Wahl pitched the eighth.
Rose earned his 17th save in the ninth.
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