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Walkers news: Sept. 10 -- St. Louis 8, Springfield 6
Record: 68-77, 5th, 9 GB Cedar Rapids
Trailing 6-5, St. Louis scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh inning runs and went on to defeat Springfield 8-6 at Busch Stadium (2006).
The Railers had taken the lead with a pair of runs in the top of the seventh off River Walkers reliever Juan Munoz.
Beginning with a lead-off walk to pinch-hitter Hideaki Taguchi, five of the first six batters Munoz faced reach base.
That included a double by pinch-hitter Danny Bourdon, which put runners on second and third.
An RBI single by Jorge Goto.
And an error by third baseman Quang Chiang on a ball hit by Billy Salas, which allowed Bourdon to score.
In the bottom of the inning, St. Louis put its first three batters on base against Jason Dexheimer.
It began with back-to-back walks to Manuel Coke and Nick Shaw.
Matt Weaver then delivered a double, scoring Coke to tie the game.
Shaw scored on a deep fly ball to right hit by Jose Ramon, as St. Louis went ahead 7-6.
The Walkers got an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth on a pinch-hit homer by Josh Hurley off Blake Schwartz.
The game was back-and-forth the entire way.
A two-run homer by Salas off Walkers starting pitcher Billy Ables highlighted a three-run first for the Railers.
Coke hit a two-run homer off Jesse Edwards to cap a three-run inning for St. Louis in the third.
Springfield got a run in the top of the sixth -- Vincent Villavicencio with an RBI single off Ables -- only to have the Walkers tally twice -- Mike Casebolt with a run-scoring single off Tomas Vasquez, Casebolt later scored on a wild pitch -- to make it 5-4.
Ables went 5.1 innings, allowing four runs on five hits. He struck out four and walked one.
Leo Hermosillo (0.1 IP) and Alex Ramos (0.1) each recorded an out to get out of the inning.
Juan Munoz got the first out of the seventh before getting into trouble.
Kyle Smarr helped limit the Railers to two runs by getting the final two outs.
Smarr (6-1) would get the win.
Chris Willett pitched a scoreless eighth.
Tom Floria gave up a lead-off double to Taguchi in the ninth but struck out the next three for his 25th save.
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