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Record: 37-26, 1st, 3.5 GA Springfield
St. Louis scored four runs in the top of the first inning and two more in the second to grab a 6-0 lead and the River Walkers rode that for an 8-5 win over Louisville at Dodger Stadium.
St. Louis put its first four batters on base to begin the game against Sluggers starting pitcher Victor Mendez.
Bob Saavedra led off with a single.
He scored on a Manuel Coke double.
Marcus Francis singled, putting runners at the corners
And when Nick Shaw homered, the Walkers led 4-0.
In the second, St. Louis put its first three batters on base against Mendez.
Saavedra and Coke led off with back-to-back doubles, making it 5-0.
Marcos Francis followed with a single as Coke moved to third.
Rodolfo Cervantez replaced Mendez.
That didn't prevent Shaw from making it 6-0 with a deep fly ball to center.
A two-run homer from Bobby Chapman off Walkers starter Ming Xiang in the fourth made it 6-2.
St. Louis got that run back in the fifth when Abdul-Nasser bin Amr led off with a double off Cervantez.
He later scored when Xiang got down a bunt against Cole Duensing.
The Sluggers made it 7-3 in the bottom of the fifth.
Jairo Diaz doubled with one out off Xiang and scored on a Duensing single.
Mark Herman pushed the lead back to five runs when he homered off Duensing in the sixth.
Louisville would score two more times -- in the sixth on a Kinney RBI double of Xiang and in the ninth on a lead-off homer by Kinney -- but that was as close as the Sluggers could get.
Xiang (7-2) allowed four runs on five hits over six innings. He struck out three and walked two.
Mike Fagan, Greg Sones and Brett McVey closed the game with a scoreless inning of relief apiece.