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Old 02-26-2022, 04:58 AM   #1758
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Walkers news: August 8 -- St. Louis 6, Columbus 2

Record: 62-47, 1st, 5GA Des Moines
Tied 1-1, St Louis sent 11 batters to the plate in the bottom of the seventh inning and scored five runs to pave the way for a 6-2 win over Columbus at Busch Stadium (2006).
Jordan Quinto and pinch-hitter Bob Saavedra got things started with back-to-back doubles off Pat Leadingham to lead off the inning.
Quinto scored on Saavedra's double.
Eddie Estrella was then given an intentional walk.
After a fly out by Manuel Coke, Mark Herman reached on an error by Leadingham to load the bases.
A Leadingham wild pitch then scored Saavedra.
Nick Shaw flew out for the second out.
But Zach Wenman started a string of four consecutive batters reaching base with a single, scoring two.
Drew Dillard replaced Leadingham.
He walked Mark Walterson and Chris Duncan followed with an RBI single.
Quinto followed that with his second hit of the inning, this one a single to load the bases.
The bases, however, would be left packed as Saavedra flew out to right.
The Walkers took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third, when Coke drew a one-out walk from Golden Bears starter Chris D'Alessandro and scored on a Herman double.
St. Louis starter Xavier Wigfall took a shutout into the seventh inning before tiring.
He exited with two outs and nobody on.
Ron Cox took his place and his third pitch to Nolan Gorman traveled over the right-field wall tying the game.
Columbus got a run off Armando Cintron in the eighth to make the final.
Cintron left the game with a sore elbow. He is expected to miss five days.
Wigfall allowed just one hit -- a two-out single by Mike Stone in the top of the fifth -- in his 6.2 innings. He struck out five and walked two.
Cox (4-0) blew his second save of the season with the Gorman homer but still notched his fourth win.
Cintron allowed a run on three hits in his two-thirds of an innings.
Closer Bobby Westerman kept the score at 6-2 in the eighth and pitched a scoreless ninth for his 17th save.
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