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Record: 1-1, 1st (tied/w. Quad City, Cedar Rapids and Des Moines), 0.5 GA Louisville and Kansas City
Nick Shaw connected on a sacrifice fly to score Freudis Nova from third base and help give St. Louis a 4-3 win over Quad City in 11 innings at Fenway Park (1976).
Nova had reached base after drawing a one-out walk from Terry Zahnow.
The next batter, Eric Peretz, reached when left fielder Jesse Hedrick dropped his fly ball.
A second walk, this one to Jose Ramirez, loaded the bases.
Edwin Cervantes took over for Zahnow
But Shaw jumped on his first pitch and hit it deep enough to right to allow Nova to score.
In the bottom of the 11th, River Walkers allowed a pair of singles to open the inning before retiring the next two.
Nick Ruffalo got the call to close it out, and struck out Clay Owens to end it and earn himself a save.
Earlier, it looked like Shaw was going to win it when he hit a two-run homer off Craig Fritzler in the top of the 10th as St. Louis went in front 3-1.
But QC tied it in the bottom of the half lashing out three hits off Gil Meier.
The third hit, a single from Hedrick, scored two and tied the score.
St. Louis got a strong start from Jim Martin, but let him face one batter too many.
Leading 1-0 with two outs in the bottom of the eighth, Rich Contreras homered to tie the score.
The Walkers had gone up 1-0 in the top of the eighth on a two-out double from Tommy Dubose off Thunder relief pitcher James Bowman.
Martin, making his debut with the Walkers, allowed one run on three hits in 7.2 innings. He struck out five and walked one.
Cory Tiller finished the eighth and worked a scoreless ninth.
Meier (1-0) blew the lead, but got the win thanks to Shaw's sac fly.