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Record: 31-26, 1st, 0.5 GA Springfield
Trailing 6-5 going into the top of the ninth inning. St. Louis scored three times and held on for an 8-7 win over Fort Wayne at Ebbets Field (1948.
Marcos Francis got the ball rolling in the top of the ninth with a lead-off home run off Mad Men relief pitcher Nick Tracy.
Two batters later, Nick Shaw kept it going with a walk. He moved to third when Manuel Coke doubled.
Efrain Garcia took over the mound duties for Fort Wayne.
Zach Wenman greeted him with a single, scoring Shaw and put the River Walkers ahead 7-6.
Coke then scored on a sacrifice fly by Mark Waterson.
The Mad Men made it interesting in the bottom of the ninth, especially after Jarred Kelenic led off with a homer off Greg Sones.
Sones retired the next two, but Jared Poland tripled.
Matt Kerr, however, flied out to end it and give Sones his second save.
Fort Wayne had led 3-1 after two innings.
St. Louis later owned a 4-3 lead after five.
The Mad Men gained their 6-4 lead with a three-run sixth courtesy of a three-run homer from starting pitcher Adrain Arnesen off Walkers starting Xavier Wigfall.
It was Arnesen's second homer of the game. He hit a two-run homer off Wigfall in the bottom of the second, to put Fort Wayne ahead 3-1.
Shaw connected for an RBI single off Antony Barrowcliff in the top of the seventh to pull St. Louis to within 6-5.
It was a rough outing for Wigfall, who allowing six runs on 10 hits over six innings. He struck out six and walked one.
Mike Fagan and Brett McVey both pitched scoreless innings to get to the ninth.
McVey (4-0) earned his fourth win of the season.