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Record: 95-67, 1st, NL South Division clinched
Jeremiah Jackson and Wes Cohen hit back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the ninth inning off St. Louis closer Nick Strother to lift Peoria to a 6-5 win in the final game of the regular season at Globe Life Field.
The win completed a three-game sweep for the Rivermen. The River Walkers will go into the National League championship series against Rockford on a four-game losing streak.
Strother had come into the weekend with just one blown save, but he blew a pair of them against the Riverman.
Getting rocked for three runs in a third of an inning in the series opener, a 10-6 loss, and then allowing three runs in this contest.
With St. Louis leading 5-3, Strother did strike out Ryan Palmer to begin the bottom of the ninth.
But he followed that with a walk to Bobby Dotson.
Jeremiah Jackson then drove a 2-2 pitch 347 feet over the left-field wall to tie it at 5-5.
Cohen followed that by powering a 1-1 pitch 397 feet over the fence in left-center to win it
It was second homer of the game. He hit a solo shot off Walkers starter Shane Drogo in the bottom of the first.
Cohen's 44 homers for the season ranked third in all of the MBL.
St. Louis jumped out to an early lead with a four-run first against Rivermen starter Seth Sipple.
Nick Shaw and Jose Segura both drove in two runs with doubles in the inning.
Cohen's first homer of the game in the bottom of the first made it 4-1.
The Walkers pushed their lead to 5-1 in the second.
Abdul-Nasser bin Amr led off with a single and scored on a two-out single by Jackson Miller.
Peoria made it 5-3 with a pair of runs off Drogo in the bottom of the htird.
Johnny Castagnozzi drove in the first run with a single.
A fly ball by Randy Underhill plated the other.
Sipple allowed all of the Walkers runs in 2.2 innings. He gave up five hits in that span.
Michael Walgren finished the third inning and got the game to the fifth without allowing another run.
After that, it was a scoreless inning each from Mike Gil, Lenyn Crisp, Antonio Gonzalez and Lorenzo Mascorro.
Moscorro (8-3) came out of it with the win.