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Record: 65-55, 1st, 4.5 GA Des Moines
For the third consecutive game, St. Louis lost in walk-off fashion as Dayton's Hsin-pin Mei led off the bottom of the 10th inning with a home run off River Walkers reliever Nick Ruffalo to give the Pilots a 5-4 win at Oriole Park at Camden Yards (1992).
The River Walkers have lost their previous two games on walk-off homers.
St. Louis jumped out to a 4-0 lead in this game.
Manuel Coke hit a solo homer in the top of the first off Dayton starting pitcher Carlos Calderon to make it 1-0.
The Walkers tallied twice in the second, pitcher Josh McDonald driving in one run with a bunt and Bob Saavedra the other with a single.
An RBI single from Zach Wenman in the fifth off Calderon made it 4-0.
The Pilots didn't get their first hit of the game off McDonald until Justin Johnson led off the sixth with a single.
Two batters later, it was 4-2, as Matt Freudenberg delivered his 24th home run of the season.
Dayton sliced that deficit to a run in the seventh.
Mike Casebolt doubled with two outs and scored on a Carlos Longoria single.
St. Louis closer Bobby Westerman got a chance for a save in the ninth, but instead racked up his eighth blown save.
Kenny Musselwhite scored the tying run after leading off with a double.
He scored when Casebolt tripled with one out.
Calderon worked five innings, allowing four runs on nine hits. He struck out six and walked one.
Ryan Wimbush and John Wolfe both followed with scoreless innings.
Jonathan Graham got the first two outs of the eighth.
Valenin Pino finished the eighth and pitched a scoreless ninth.
For the second straight day, Bobby Lavala (9-5) got a win in relief.
This time he pitched a scoreless top of the 10th.