Walkers news: Sept. 22 -- St. Louis 6, Louisville 4, Game 2
Record: 90-60-1st, 6 GA Cedar Rapids
Manuel Coke hit a two-run home run with no outs in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift St. Louis to a 6-4 win over Louisville and a doubleheader sweep at Busch Stadium (2006).
Abdul-Nasser bin Amr led off the inning with a single off Sluggers relief pitcher Nick Kahny.
Coke, who had entered the game as a defensive replacement in the seventh inning, then turned on a 3-1 pitch from Kahny and hit it 378 feet over the right-field wall for his 37th homer of the season.
The River Walkers were lucky the game got to extra innings.
Down 4-1, Eddie Estrella hit a three-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth off Louisville reliever Matt Whitmore to tie the game.
The Sluggers had gone up 2-0 in the top of the third when Jairo Diaz hit a two-run homer off St. Louis starter Ron Cox.
Chris Ring hit a two-run homer in the eighth off Bobby Westerman to make it 4-1.
Making a start out of the bullpen, Cox pitched well allowed two runs on six hits over six innings. He struck out nine and walked one.
Greg Sones worked a scoreless seventh and got the first out of the eighth.
Westerman finished the eighth, but gave up Ring's homer.
Armando Cintron worked a scoreless ninth for St. Louis.
Closer Nick Strother (7-2) did the same in the ninth, setting himself up to win his seventh game of the season.
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