Walkers news: June 30 - St. Louis 7, Louisville 4, 11 innings
Record: 45-34, 1st, (Tied/w. Springfield), 1.5 GA Cedar Rapids
Nick Shaw hit a three-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the 11th inning off Louisville reliever Jesse McNaboe to give St. Louis a 7-4 win at Busch Stadium (2006).
Tom Floria opened the inning on the mound for the Sluggers, but exited after allowing a one-out single to Manuel Coke.
McNaboe, who was part of the St. Louis pitching rotation for parts of seven seasons, took over and got Mark Herman to fly out before giving up a single to Mark Waterson.
Shaw followed with his 11th home run of the season, parking a 3-2 pitch 405 feet over the wall in left center.
Much earlier, the Sluggers had jumped out to an early lead with Royce Lewis belted a three-run homer off River Walkers starting pitcher Xavier Wigfall in the top of the first.
When Lance Brown connected on an RBI single in the fifth off Wigfall, the Sluggers led 4-0.
But St. Louis got all of that back with a big bottom of the eighth.
The Walkers belted out four hits off reliever Matt Whitmore in that inning, none bigger than the three-run homer by Manuel Coke which tied the game.
Wigfall worked six innings, allowing four runs on seven hits. He struck out seven and walked three.
St. Louis used six relievers to finish off the game.
Jesse Gaither (0.2 IP) and Ron Cox (0.1) combined to work a scoreless seventh.
After that, it was a scoreless inning each from Maximilliano Minella, Frank Jimenez, Alex Rios and Kyle Smarr.
Smarr (1-0) earned his first victory since joining the Walkers back on May 19.
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