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Record: 34-26, 1st, 1.5 GA Springfield
Marcos Francis hit a two-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift St. Louis to an improbable 12-10 win over Quad City at Busch Stadium (2006).
The victory also was the fifth in a row for the River Walkers.
Quad City owned a 6-0 lead after a half-inning, an 8-0 lead after an inning and a half and 10-1 lead at the seventh-inning stretch.
Yet somehow, St. Louis came back.
The Walkers did the heavy lifting in the bottom of the seventh, matching the Thunder's first-inning outburst with a six-run inning of their own.
Wildness on the part of QC reliever Willie Mendoza was a big factor as he walked two batters and also hit two.
His second walk and second hit by pitch both came with the bases loaded and scored the inning's first two runs.
Rich Dodson followed a walk to Gabe Dudman with a single, which made it 10-4.
Shane Gilley took over and was greeted by an Abdul-Nasser bin Amr fly ball which was deep enough to make it 10-5.
Chris Duncan then made it 10-7 with a double.
St. Louis sliced the deficit to a run in the eighth.
A homer from Nick Shaw off Danny Garza plated the first two runs.
Dudman then drew another walk.
A wild pitch moved him to second.
Dudman then stole third and scored when catcher Alex Boychuk sailed past the third baseman.
The Walkers didn't waste much time against reliever Angelo Touliatos in the ninth.
Pinch-hitter Manuel Coke led off with a single.
Francis then got ahold of a 2-2 pitch and drove it 394 feet over the left-field wall for his ninth home run of the season.
It was a third straight ugly outing for Walkers starting pitcher Kevin Hrdlicka.
He lasted just two outs into the second inning and allowed eight runs on six hits in his 1.2 innings on the mound.
The young right-hander also walked three batters and hit one.
Ron Cox took over and supplied 4.1 innings of important relief, allowing one run.
Mike Fagan pitched the sixth and seventh and allowed the final QC run.
Bobby Westerman (2-1) earned the win after he didn't allow a base runner in the eighth or ninth.