Walkers news: August 13 -- Louisville 9, St. Louis 4
Record: 63-49, 1st, 5.5 GA Des Moines
Louisville ripped St. Louis starting pitcher Jesse McNaboe for four runs in the top of the first inning and rode that hot start to a 9-4 win at Busch Stadium (2006).
The win was the second in a row for the Sluggers to wrap up the three-game series.
McNaboe could not find the plate to start the game, walking Louisville's first two hitters Chris Zoltan and Dan Boyle.
Bobby Chapman followed with a single to load the bases.
Lance Brown then opened the scoring a sacrifice fly, scoring Zoltan.
Caleb Kinney quickly made it 4-0 smashing the first pitch he saw 371 feet over the right-field wall.
The Sluggers pushed their lead to 5-0 in the third.
Will Banfield doubled off McNaboe. He scored on a single by pitcher Jason James.
McNaboe was gone by the sixth inning when Louisville added three more runs off Ron Cox to go up 8-0.
Brown, a former Walkers prospect, did the damage with his 25th homer of the season, a three-run shot.
St. Louis did show some life late.
Bob Saavedra and Manuel Coke hit solo homers off James in the sixth, slicing the deficit to 8-2.
Joe Bien, another former Walkers prospect, answered with a solo homer off Cox in the seventh.
Cox then hit Jario Diaz leading to a bench-clearing brawl.
A suspension likely awaits Cox.
St. Louis tallied single runs in the eighth (Mark Herman solo homer off Clyde Rayner) and ninth (Jordan Quinto tripled off Matt Whitmore and scored on a Chris Duncan double) to cap the scoring.
James (7-9) got the win after allowing two runs on five hits over the first six innings. He struck out five and walked one.
Cyde Rayner (1.1 IP) and Cole Duensing (0.1) combined to pitch the seventh and eighth innings for Louisville.
Whitmore took care of the ninth.
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