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Record: 1-2, 4th (Tied/w. Cedar Rapids); 1 GB Des Moines, Springfield and Quad City
Josh Moss hit a three-run pinch-hit homer with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning off St. Louis closer Bobby Westerman to lift Des Moines to a 6-5 win at Green Canyon Park.
The Harvesters took the final two games of their season-opening three-game series with the River Walkers.
Leading 5-3 Westerman struck out Willie Martinez to open the bottom of the ninth, but Kyle Roberts followed with a single and Dusty McEvoy doubled to put two runners aboard.
Tha brought Moss to the plate and facing a 2-0 pitch he drove it 361 feet over the wall in left field to give his team the win.
Trailing 2-1, St. Louis had gone up 4-1 in the top of the third against Des Moines starting pitcher Teddy Loetzsch.
Jackson Miller drove in the first two runs with his first home run of the season.
Marcos Francis later singled with two outs.
A wild pickoff throw to third moved Francis to second.
A wild pitched advanced him to third.
Mark Herman scored Francis with a single.
After the Harvesters drew to within 4-3 thanks to solo homers from Hector Hidalgo and Kyle Roberts in the bottom of the third and sixth innings -- both allowed by Walkers starting pitcher Ming Xiang, who made his North American debut -- St. Louis went back up by two runs when Nick Shaw hit his second homer of the season.
This was a lead-off shot off reliever Wade Hreha to open the top of the eighth.
Loetzch went five innings, allowing three runs on six hits. He struck out seven and walked two.
Bill Gomez supplied two scoreless innings of relief.
Hreha pitched the eighth, allowing Shaw's homer.
Jose Tafoya (1-0) handled the top of the ninth and earned the win and the Harvesters won it in the bottom of the inning.