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Record: 5-2, 1st (Tied/w. Springfield), 1 GA Des Moines
Six St. Louis players had two hits or more, as the River Walkers unleashed 16 hits to power their way to a 15-6 rout of Cedar Rapids at Connie Mack Stadium (1960).
The host Grapplers actually jumped out to a 2-0 lead, scoring a pair of runs off St. Louis starter Xavier Wigfall in the bottom of the first.
Tim Jurgensen drove in the first run with a double.
Arnold Hammond followed with a single to score Jurgensen.
The Walkers took control by scoring three times in the top of the third, four in the fourth and once in the fifth.
Manuel Coke collected the first two of his five RBIs in the game with a two-run double off Cedar Rapids starter Josh Downer in the third.
Wigfall, who had doubled to lead off the third, hit his first major league homer in the fourth.
It was a two-run shot off Downer, making it 5-3.
Nick Shaw, who had driven in Coke with double in the third, collected two RBIs in the fourth on a single off Ian Goshe.
Mark Herman led off the fifth off Jordyn Ibarra and scored when Abdul-Nasser bin Amr reached on an error by first baseman Eric Gerhardt.
That made it 8-3.
A two-run double by Miguel Mena in the bottom of the fifth, highlighted a three-run inning for Cedar Rapids which made it 8-6.
The Walkers, however, broke it back open with seven runs in the top of the eighth.
The big hits were a three-run homer from Coke and a bin-Amr two-run double.
Both came off Hector Miro.
Wigfall (1-0) wasn't great on the mound, but didn't need to be with all the run support.
He lasted five innings, allowing six runs on five hits. He struck out three and walked two.
Brett McVey pitched a scoreless sixth innings.
Greg Sones (0.2 IP) and Scott Rissler (0.1) combined on a scoreless seventh.
Ron Cox didn't allow a base runner in the eighth or ninth.

bin-Amr drove in two runs with a double.