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Record: 0-1, 5th/(Tied/with Des Moines), 1.5 GB Louisville and Cedar Rapids
Down 1-0, Green Bay roughed up St. Louis starting pitcher Ming Xiang for five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, and the Mallards went on to post a 6-3 Opening Day win over the River Walkers at PNC Park.
The game was scoreless into the top of the sixth when Manuel Coke put St. Louis on the board with a homer off Green Bay reliever Mushankoji Okamura.
Xiang had limited the Mallards to four base runners -- one single, one walk and two errors -- through the first five innings.
But he came unraveled with nobody on and two outs in the sixth.
Blaze Jordan got it rolling with a single.
When Alberto Landaverde belted the first pitch he saw for a double, the Mallards had runners on second and third.
With Conrad Perry at the plate, Xiang uncorked a wild pitch, tying the score.
Perry then singled on a 3-2 pitch putting Green Bay in front.
Joel Petrucci added another run with a triple.
Savion McMullan was given an intentional walk, but pinch-hitter Hugo Vargas spoiled the strategy with a two-run double to make it 5-1.
Green Bay added another run in the sixth, Perry collected an RBI with a single off reliever Evan Palmer.
The Walkers did tally twice in the top of the eighth -- Mark Waterson drove in both with a two-out single off Rich Haas -- but that would be the end of the scoring.
Green Bay starting pitcher John Haynes worked 5.1 scoreless innings, allowing four hits. He struck out seven and didn't walk a batter.
Okamura (1-0) earned the win for finishing the sixth, despite allowing the Coke homer.
Edwin Cervantes pitched a scoreless seventh and got the first out of the eighth.
Haas was on the mound when the Walkers got their final two runs. He also finished the eighth.
Matt Rodriguez struck out two of the three batters he faced in the ninth for his first save.