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Record: 77-56, 2nd, 2.5 GB Cedar Rapids
St. Louis finally got a decent start from Xavier Wigfall, who worked five shutout innings before giving up a two-run home run to Toledo's Chris Gibbs, and the River Walkers went on to win 5-3 at Busch Stadium (2006).
Coming off Tommy John surgery, Wigfall had a rough first three starts before this one.
The Gibbs home run made it 3-2 River Walkers.
Wigfall (1-3) ended up going 5.2 innings, allowing the two runs on three hits. He struck out four and walked two.
St. Louis jumped out to a 1-0 lead against Mud Hens starting pitcher Martin Lopez in the bottom of the third.
The Walkers banged out three straight singles, from Wigfall, Bob Saavedra and Jackson Miller, his driving in the run.
The St. Louis lead expanded to 3-0 in the fifth.
Izaac Pacheco led off with a single, and moved to second on a Wigfall bunt.
Saavedra singled again, putting runners at the corners.
Miller drove in Pacheco with a fly ball.
Jose Segura followed with a double to score the inning's third run.
It's lead down to 3-2, the Walkers went back up by three in the bottom of the seventh.
Segura tripled with Miller on first.
Nick Shaw drove in Segura with a fly ball to right off Josh Stauffer.
After Wigfall left with one out in the sixth, St. Louis used five relievers to close out the game.
Scott Rissler faced just one batter, to end the sixth.
Rookie Chris Eason made his debut with a silent seventh. He did come out for the eighth and allowed a lead-off single.
Nick Strother (0.2 IP) and Greg Sones (0.1) combined to make sure that run did not score.
Bobby Westerman rebounded from his first bad outing as a Walkers, with a scoreless ninth for his seventh save.