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Record: 7-2, 1st (Tied/w. Springfield), 3 GA Des Moines
For the second straight game, St. Louis banged out 16 hits and scored in double digits as the River Walkers downed Cedar Rapids 10-3 at Connie Mack Stadium (1960) to complete a three-game sweep.
St. Louis has now won six in a row.
Once again, for the second consecutive game, the Walkers put up four runs in the top of the first inning on the Grapplers.
The first three St. Louis batters of the game -- Bob Saavedra (walk), Jackson Miller (single) and Manuel Coke (single) -- all reached base against Cedar Rapids starting pitcher Joel Glenn.
Coke's single scored Saavedra with the game's first run.
That set the stage for Marcos Francis to drive in the game's second run with a double.
Miller scored the third on a Mark Herman ground out.
A single by Jose Segura plated Coke to make it 4-0.
The game did get close when Eric Gerhardt hit a three-run homer off Walkers starting pitcher Jesse McNaboe, pulling Cedar Rapids to within 4-3.
All the rest of the scoring would be done by St. Louis.
Abdur-Nasser bin Amr hit a two-run homer off Glenn in the fifth.
Segura had an RBI single off reliver Miguel Britten in the seventh.
Another run scored that inning on a wild pitch.
Coke capped the scoring with a two-run home run off Hector Miro in the eighth.
McNaboe (2-0) fought through 5.2 innings, allowing three runs on four hits. He struck out three and walked one.
Rookie Maximilliano Minelli got the final out of the sixth
Scott Rissler pitched a scoreless seventh and recorded the first out of the eighth.
Nick Ruffalo handled the rest of the eighth.
Greg Sones took care of the ninth.