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Record: 2-2, 4th, 1.5 GB Cedar Rapids
Leading 2-1, St. Louis broke the game open with a five-run top of the fifth inning as the River Walkers went on to defeat Louisville 10-5 at Dodger Stadium.
St. Louis jumped out to a 2-0 lead on back-to-back homers from Mark Herman and Mark Waterson off Sluggers starting pitcher Travis Pooler to open the top of the second inning.
It's lead now 2-1, St. Louis got things going in the fifth against Pooler by putting three of their first four batters on base.
Mike Vaughan led off with a single.
Vaughan was forced out at second when pitcher Brent Autin tried to get down a bunt.
Ryan Wibbenmeyer singled to put runners at first and second.
Quiang Chang scored Autin with a double.
It also chased Pooler from the game.
Billy Hermann took over for Louisville.
The Sluggers had acquired Hermann from the Walkers in an off-season trade.
Manuel Coke greeted Hermann with a two-run single.
Nick Shaw followed with a two-run homer, his first of the season, making it 7-1.
St. Louis continued to add to its lead.
Autin drove in a run with a sacrifice fly off Hermann in the sixth.
Louisville scored three times in the bottom of the inning, Caleb Kinney's two-run triple off reliever Alex Rios was the big hit, making it 8-5.
But Jose Segura hit a two-run homer off Ruben Lopez in the eighth to cap the scoring.
Autin (1-0), who was making his first start for St. Louis, was decent.
His pitch count got hit, 100 through five innings, as he allowed two runs on four hits. He struck out six and walked three.
Rios wasn't good as he only recorded one out in the sixth.
Evan Palmer finished the sixth and worked a scoreless seventh.
Carlos Hernandez took care of the rest working two innings without allowing a run.