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Record: 80-67, 1st, 5 GA Quad City
The St. Louis' bullpen continued to struggle allowing three runs in the bottom of the seventh and two in the eighth allowing Springfield to break open what had been a 6-6 game in an 11-6 win at Oracle Park (2020).
Neither starting pitcher lasted past the second inning.
Railers starter Tony Aceves gave up four runs in the top of the second -- the key hit a bases-loaded triple by Abdul-Nasser bin Amer -- as the River Walkers went up 4-0.
St. Louis starter Jesse McNaboe allowed the first five Railers batters to reach in the bottom of the second before he exited without recording an out.
Included in that mix was a three-run homer by Ruben Villanueva and an RBI triple by Matt Beagle.
Beagle later scored on a single by pinch-hitter Joseph Hughes off Ron Cox as Springfield went ahead 5-4.
Marcos Francis hit a solo homer off Railers reliever Tom McClurg in the top of the third to tie it.
Springfield regained the lead on a Carlton Randall homer off Ron Cox in the fourth.
St. Louis drew even gain in the sixth against Ozzie Soto.
Jackson Miller led off the inning with a single and scored on a Bob Saavedra sacrifice fly off T.J. Darr.
That set the stage for the Railers bludgeoning of the St. Louis bullpen in the seventh and eighth innings.
Maximilliano Minelli walked Billy Salas to lead off the bottom of the seventh for Springfield.
Greg Sones took over and after a strikeout of Jose Chavez walked Justin Schneider.
Walkers pitchers would combine for 10 walks in the game.
Pinch-hitter Nick Gonzalez then connected on a two-run single.
Riley Greene later scored Gonzalez with another single.
The Railers pretty much put it out of the reach in the eighth.
Billy Salas singled off Scott Rissler with one out.
He scored on a Schneider double.
Pinch-hitter Hunter Fedducia capped the scoring with a single that brought Schneider across the plate.
Aceves allowed four runs on three hits in his two innings. He walked two and didn't strike out a batter.
After that, it was McClurg (1.2 IP), Soto (1.2), Darr (0.2), Mike LaFramboise (1.0), Brent Dreher (1.0) and Ryan Tanner (1.0) to close out the game.
LaFramboise (6-3) earned his sixth win of the season.