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Record: 72-59, 1st, 7 GA Quad City
Pinch-hitter T.J. Peterson jot a two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning off St. Louis reliever Brett McVey to give Kansas City a 6-5 win over the River Walkers at Kaufman Stadium.
The win gave the Monarchs a sweep of the three-game series.
Armando Cintron started the inning on the mound for St. Louis.
He walked Nick Kline to open the inning but then retired the next two batters.
With the right-handed Gerald Bernal scheduled to bat and the left-handed Cintron having thrown 30 pitches, McVey was brought into the game to get the final out.
All he did was allow the final two runs as Peterson blasted a 2-1 pitch 406 feet over the wall in right center for his fourth home run of the season.
St. Louis jumped out to a 3-0 lead over the first two innings against Monarchs starter Alexis Yanez.
Bob Saavedra played a big role in that.
He led off the game with a triple and later scored.
In the second inning, he hit a two-run homer.
KC got on the scoreboard against Walkers starting Ming Xiang in the bottom of the second.
Jim Peebles drew a lead-off walk and went to second when Bernal followed with a single.
Juan Ortiz later scored Peebles with a two-out single.
The Monarchs made it a 3-2 game an inning later.
Josh Shuler led off the inning with a double and scored on a Bernal single.
The Walkers, however, would eventually build a 5-2 lead.
Eddie Estrella led off the fourth with a homer off Yanez.
Xiang drew a lead-off walk from Jim Messina in the sixth and scored on a Marcos Francis fly ball.
The St. Louis bullpen, however, continued to have trouble holding leads allowing the Monarchs to pull within a run by scoring twice in the bottom of the eighth.
Scott Rissler set the tone for the damage by hitting Bernal to lead off the inning.
Pinch-hitter Eric Marion followed with a double.
After Rissler got a fly out, Cintron took over only to be greeted by a two-run single by Juan Ortiz.
Yanez lasted just 3.2 innings for the Monarchs, allowing four runs on seven hits. He struck out five and walked two.
Messina finished the fourth inning, worked a scoreless fifth and got the first out of the sixth.
Daniel Reid finished the sixth and worked a scoreless seventh.
Omar Benitez pitched a scoreless eighth.
Omar Moreno (6-2) did the same in the ninth to earn the win.