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Record: 10-5, 1st, 1.5 GA Cedar Rapids and Kansas City
St. Louis scored once in the first inning and twice in the second, setting the stage for a 6-3 win over Quad City at Busch Stadium (2006).
Dan Hillard and Jose Segura drew consecutive one-out walks from Thunder starting pitcher Mike Koontz in the bottom of the first inning.
Jose Ramirez scored Hillard with a single down the first-base line.
An inning later, Bob Saavedra hit his first home run of the season, a two-run shot, off Koontz, making it 3-0.
That advantage grew to 5-0 in the fifth.
Saavedra scored again, this time doubling off Koontz with one out.
He scored when Hillard followed with another double.
Hillard advanced to third on a Jose Segura single.
Ramirez collected the RBI when Hillard scored on a fielder's choice.
The Thunder finally got on the board with a pair of runs off Walkers starter Shane Drogo in the sixth.
Alex Richards plated both runs with a two-out double.
QC pulled to within 5-3 in the top of the eighth.
Reliever Juan Munoz walked the inning's first two batters, and then saw the Thunder load the bases on a single by pinch-hitter Enrique Salcedo.
Paul Totten scored Chris Shelley, who had walked, with a fly ball to left.
Munoz followed that with a strike out of Richards for the second out.
Nick Ruffalo then got called to the mound.
He ended the inning with a strike out of Bill Blakeney.
The Walkers got one of those runs back in the bottom of the eighth.
Segura drew a lead-off walk from Edwin Cervantes.
A Ramirez doubled plated Segura on third.
Aaron Nixon picked up an RBI with a fly ball to left.
Drogo (2-0) earned the win by going 5.2 innings, allowing two runs on two hits. He struck out five, but walked the same number.
Scott Rissler (1.1) finished the sixth and worked a scoreless seventh.
The eighth belonged to Munoz (0.2), who pitched himself into big trouble, and Ruffalo (0.1), who retired the only batter he faced.
Angel Tiburcio converted his first save opportunity of the season in the ninth.