2033 St. Louis River Walkers: And the saga continues

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Record: 63-47, 1st, 5.5 GA Des Moines
St. Louis sent nine batters to the plate in the first inning -- scoring four runs -- to set the tone for a 10-1 rout of Louisville at Busch Stadium (2006).
Beginning with a lead-off single by Bob Saavedra off Sluggers starting pitcher Esteban Serna, the River Walkers had six of their first seven hitters reach base.
Included in that was a two-run double by Nick Shaw, he would go 4 for 4 in the game with three doubles, a homer and five RBIs, an RBI double by Mark Waterson and a run-scoring single by Jackson Miller.
Saavedra made it 5-0 when he led off the bottom of the second with his 13th homer of the season.
Shaw cranked his 19th homer of 2037, also a solo shot, this one off Hugh Fisher in the sixth to push the St. Louis lead to 6-0.
David Morales provided the lone Louisville run in the top of the seventh with a homer off Walkers starting pitcher Josh McDonald.
McDonald (6-6) had a good outing, allowing the one run on five hits in 6.1 innings. He struck out four and walked two.
Maximilliano Minelli finished off the seventh.
Brett McVey worked the final two innings for the Walkers, not allowing a run.
St. Louis made it lopsided with a four-run bottom of the seventh.
Mark Herman had an RBI single off reliever Clyde Rayner.
Shaw capped the scoring with a two-run double.

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Record: 63-48, 1st, 5.5 GA Des Moines
Louisville jumped out to a 5-0 lead behind a three-run homer from Jose Gonzalez in the top of the second inning and a two-run shot from Lance Brown in the third, both off St. Louis starting pitcher Ming Xiang, and that propelled the Sluggers to a 7-5 win at Busch Stadium (2006).
The second-inning homer by Gonzalez was his first of the season.
For Brown, a former top prospect for St. Louis, his homer in the third was his 24th.
The River Walkers did make a game of it.
They scored three times in the bottom of the fourth off Louisville starter Danny Wright.
Mark Waterson (double), Marcos Francis (double) and Jackson Miller (single) all had run-scoring two-out hits.
But it would be 7-3 by the time the Walkers would score again.
Dan Boyle led off the seventh with a homer off Nick Ruffalo.
Chris Ring connected on an RBI double off Maximiliano Minelli in the eighth.
St. Louis got late solo homers from Francis (off Matt Whitmore) and Mark Herman (off Tom Floria) to cap the scoring.
Wright didn't last long enough to earn the win.
He pitched 4.2 innings, allowing three runs on eight hits. He struck out two and walked one.
Hugh Fisher finished off the fifth for the Sluggers.
The win went to Cole Duensing (2-2), who pitched a scoreless sixth.
After that, it was an inning each for Antonio Gonzalez, Whitmore and Floria.
Floria did get awarded his 18th save.

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Record: 63-49, 1st, 5.5 GA Des Moines
Louisville ripped St. Louis starting pitcher Jesse McNaboe for four runs in the top of the first inning and rode that hot start to a 9-4 win at Busch Stadium (2006).
The win was the second in a row for the Sluggers to wrap up the three-game series.
McNaboe could not find the plate to start the game, walking Louisville's first two hitters Chris Zoltan and Dan Boyle.
Bobby Chapman followed with a single to load the bases.
Lance Brown then opened the scoring a sacrifice fly, scoring Zoltan.
Caleb Kinney quickly made it 4-0 smashing the first pitch he saw 371 feet over the right-field wall.
The Sluggers pushed their lead to 5-0 in the third.
Will Banfield doubled off McNaboe. He scored on a single by pitcher Jason James.
McNaboe was gone by the sixth inning when Louisville added three more runs off Ron Cox to go up 8-0.
Brown, a former Walkers prospect, did the damage with his 25th homer of the season, a three-run shot.
St. Louis did show some life late.
Bob Saavedra and Manuel Coke hit solo homers off James in the sixth, slicing the deficit to 8-2.
Joe Bien, another former Walkers prospect, answered with a solo homer off Cox in the seventh.
Cox then hit Jario Diaz leading to a bench-clearing brawl.
A suspension likely awaits Cox.
St. Louis tallied single runs in the eighth (Mark Herman solo homer off Clyde Rayner) and ninth (Jordan Quinto tripled off Matt Whitmore and scored on a Chris Duncan double) to cap the scoring.
James (7-9) got the win after allowing two runs on five hits over the first six innings. He struck out five and walked one.
Cyde Rayner (1.1 IP) and Cole Duensing (0.1) combined to pitch the seventh and eighth innings for Louisville.
Whitmore took care of the ninth.

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St. Louis River Walkers relief pitcher Ron Cox and Louisville Sluggers shortstop Jario Diaz have both been suspended for four games after they got into a fight during their August 13 game at Dodger Stadium.
Cox, 25, seemed to purposely hit Diaz with a pitch after allowing a home run to the Sluggers' Joe Bien during the top of the seventh inning of Louisville's 9-4 victory.
Both players will have to sit for four games.

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Record: 63-50, 1st, 5.5 GA Des Moines
Cedar Rapids roughed up St. Louis starting pitcher Xavier Wigfall for five runs in the top of the first inning and the Grapplers breezed to a 9-0 win at Busch Stadium (2006).
Beginning with a walk to lead-off Miguel Mato, Cedar Rapids put its first five batters on base against Wigfall.
Jose Morillo followed with a single and when Eric Gerhardt doubled Mato scored to make it 1-0.
Arnold Hammond followed with a two-run double.
Tim Jurgensen topped that with a triple, scoring the inning's fourth run.
Matt Thurston drove in Jurgrensen with the inning's final run with a ground out.
The Grapplers did the rest of their scoring late in the game.
Santos Villanueva hit a two-run homer off Scott Rissler, who had just entered the game, with two outs in the seventh.
Armando Cintron gave up a pair of singles to Austin Hendrick and Mato to open the top of the eighth.
A wild pitch moved the runners to second and third.
Morillo drove in Hendrick with a ground out.
After Cintron hit Gerhardt with a pitch and another wild pitch put runners at second and third, Hammond made it 9-0 with a ground ball which scored Mato.
Cintron had to leave the game with a back problem with two outs in the inning.
Overshadowed by the offense, Josh Downer turned in a strong mound outing for the Grapplers.
Downer (5-8) went six scoreless innings allowing three hits. He struck out four and walked one.
Rhett Daniel worked a scoreless seventh for Cedar Rapids
Jordyn Ibarra didn't give up a run in the eighth or ninth.

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The St. Louis River Walkers have placed left-handed reliever Aramando Cintron on the 10-day injured list after he left their 9-0 loss to Cedar Rapids on August 14 with back stiffness.
Getting called up from AAA Memphis for the second time this season is left-handed reliever Mark Pendleton.
It is the second trip to the IL in a little over a month for Cintron, who was out of action for 10 days beginning on July 9 with an elbow injury.
Cinton, 34, has pitched in 38 games this season for St. Louis going 2-0 with five saves and a 2.36 ERA.
Pendleton received the first call to the majors of his career when Cintron got hurt in July.
He pitched in just one inning of one game.
This season at AAA, Pendleton is 0-1 with a 4.85 ERA in 23 games.

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Record: 63-51, 1st, 5.5 GA Des Moines
Joel Glenn took a shutout into the sixth inning and Cedar Rapids jumped out to a 3-0 lead before holding on to defeat St. Louis 3-2 at Busch Stadium (2006).
The loss was the fourth in a row for St. Louis.
Glenn, who in his last outing against the River Walkers earned the win while allowing one run over 6.2 innings, gave up five hits while on the mound this time. He struck out four and walked two.
Glenn (7-7) exited the game after throwing his 93rd pitch.
With a runner on first and two outs, Justin Sterner struck out Zach Wenman to end the inning and keep the Grapplers in front 2-0.
Those two runs came courtesy of a two-run homer from Tim Jurgensen off St. Louis rookie starter Matt Wilson in the top of the fifth inning.
Cedar Rapids went up 3-0 in the seventh when Jerry Perez led off with a triple off Wilson and scored when Mark Hill singled off Maximiliano Minelli.
Anton Melendez pitched the seventh and eighth innings for the Grapplers.
He allowed an RBI sacrifice fly to Marcos Francis, which scored Bob Saavedra, which ended a 16-inning scoreless streak for St. Louis.
Antonio Echevaria pitched the ninth for the Grapplers and gave up an RBI single to Manuel Coke.
But with runners at first and third, he struck out pinch-hitter Jordan Quinto for his second save of the season.

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Record: 64-51, 1st, 5.5 GA Des Moines
Mark Herman connected on a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth inning off Cedar Rapids relief pitcher Matt Ray to score Jackson Miller and give St. Louis a 4-3 win at Busch Stadium (2006).
The win allowed the River Walkers to salvage the finale of the three-game series.
Miller had reached base on an error by Grapplers catcher Tim Jurgensen while leading off the inning.
A bunt by Abdul-Nasser bin Amr moved Miller to second.
Pinch-hitter Jordan Quinto then singled to put runners at the corners.
Bob Saavedra flew out for the second out.
But Herman singled past the second baseman to bring home the winning run.
Cedar Rapids had tied it at 3-3 in the top of the ninth against St. Louis closer Bobby Westerman.
Jerry Perez had doubled off Westerman with one out.
Pinch-hitter Arnold Hammond followed with a single with Perez advancing to third.
With Austin Hendrick at the plate, Hammond, somehow, was picked off at first by the catcher, Miller, for the second out.
But Hendrick doubled over center fielder Mark Waterson's head to bring Perez home with the tying run.
St. Louis jumped to out to a 3-0 lead with a big bottom of the first against Grapplers starting pitcher Edwin Rivera.
Saavedra led off the inning with a single.
Herman doubled to moved Saavedra to third.
Manuel Coke picked up an RBI with a ground out.
Nick Shaw followed with his 20th homer of the season to make it 3-0.
Walkers starter Josh McDonald didn't allow a run through six innings but got in trouble when he came back out for the seventh.
He allowed four straight base runners --- two singles, a walk and a double -- leading to a pair of runs.
Santos Villanueva drove in the first run with a double.
Perez collected the RBI on the second with a single off Scott Rissler.
Altogether, McDonald allowed two runs on seven hits over 6.1 innings. He struck out six and walked two.
Rissler finished off the seventh and was on the mound for the second Cedar Rapids run.
Greg Sones got the first out of the eighth before allowing a pair of base runners.
Westerman stepped in and kept the Grapplers from scoring in the eighth.
But he could not follow suit in the ninth, allowing the tying run.
Westerman (7-1) got his seventh blown save and his seventh win of the season.

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MBL news: August 17 -- Week 19 - Awards and standings

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Record: 64-52, 1st, 4.5 GA Des Moines
St. Louis jumped out to a 2-0 lead, but Chicago scored the next five runs as the G-Men down the River Walkers at Wrigley Field (1938).
The River Walkers scored a pair of runs in the top of the second inning off Chicago starting pitcher Juan Gomez.
Alex Nunez singled with one out and moved to third on a Jordan Quinto double.
After an intentional walk to Abdul-Nasser bin Amr, pitcher Ming Xiang got down a bunt to score Nunez.
Quinto then scored on a deep fly ball hit by Bob Saavedra.
The G-Men got one of those runs back against Xiang in the bottom of the second.
Matt Walczak singled with one out and scored on a Ken Turner two-out single.
Turner would 3 for 4 in the contest and drive in three of the G-Men's runs.
Chicago seized the lead in the bottom of the fifth.
Willie Rubio tied it when he led off with a homer off Xiang.
Gomez, the pitcher, then drew a walk.
A Danny Gutierrez single plated Gomez on third.
Jordan Lawlar made it 3-2 Chicago with a deep fly to right center.
The G-Men added two insurance runs in the eighth against the Walkers' bullpen.
With Brett McVey on the mound, things got going when Luis Tejada reached with one out on an error by bin Amr at Shortstop.
A wild pitch while Matt Walczak was in the process of striking out moved Tejada to second.
Alfredo Cano was then given an intentional walk.
Turner made St. Louis pay with a two-run single.
Gomez (8-10) pitched six innings, allowing two runs on five hits. He struck out two and walked three.
Erik Perry and Jimmy DaPro both pitched scoreless innings to get the game to the ninth.
Nick Black, Dennis Turner and Devin Eyre all got one out -- Black and Turner both left the game with injuries -- to seal the win.
Eyre earned his fifth save.

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Record: 65-52, 1st, 5.5 GA Des Moines
Tied 3-3, St. Louis scored three runs in the top of the fourth inning -- two of them on a double by pitcher Jesse McNaboe -- and the River Walkers went on to defeat Chicago 6-4 at Wrigley Field.
Both teams scored three times in the second inning.
Mark Herman hit a three-run home run off G-Men starting pitcher Hugo Manscal for St. Louis.
Luis Tejada led off the bottom of the inning with a homer off McNaboe.
Manscal later connected on an RBI double.
Nick Shaw led off the Walkers fourth with a single and Eddie Estrella followed with a walk,
A wild pitch by Manscal moved the runners to second and third.
Shaw scored on a Mark Waterson ground out.
After an intentional walk to Abdul-Nasser bin Amr, McNaboe connected on his double into the gap in right center plating a pair.
On the mound, McNaboe (6-8) allowed four runs on four hits over five-plus innings. He struck out three and walked the same.
McNaboe returned to the mound for the sixth but gave up a lead-off single to Josh Rosborough.
Greg Sones took over but after a strike out of pinch-hitter Jessie Willoughby walked the next to load the bases.
Maximiliano Minelli got the game and struck out Ken Turner only to follow that with a walk to Art McKee to force in a run.
Minelli, however, did strike out Ben Nelson to keep the score 6-4.
It would remain that way the rest of the game.
Minelli would end up pitching 1.2 innings.
Nick Ruffalo (0.2 IP) and Scott Rissler (0.1) would combine on a scoreless eighth.
Bobby Westerman handled the ninth for his 18th save.

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Record: 65-53, 1st, 5.5 GA Des Moines
Mark Herman became the first St. Louis River Walkers to hit for the cycle, but it was not enough to carry his team to a win over Chicago at Wrigley Field (1938).
The G-Men won the game 5-4 on a walk-off three-run home run by Josh Rosborough with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Herman had completed his cycle with a solo homer off Chicago reliever Devin Eyre to lead off the top of the ninth to put the Walkers ahead 4-1.
But it's been a rough season for the St. Louis bullpen and this game was another example.
Closer Bobby Westerman took the mound to start the inning.
He sandwiched a single by Willie Rubio and a walk to Danny Gutierrez around a strike out.
He then gave up a double to Colt Wheaton to make the score 4-2.
Westerman, who was pitching for the fourth time in five games, was replaced by Brett McVey.
McVey's first pitch to Rosborough.
It landed 483 feet into the second deck of the center field bleachers to give the G-Men the win.
Chicago starting pitcher Greg Sadler allowed three runs on 10 hits over the first six innings.
He struck out 11 and walked two.
Erik Perry pitched a scoreless seventh inning.
Eyre worked the eighth, giving up the Herman homer, and recorded the first out of the ninth.
Nick Black (1-2) wrapped up the ninth. That set him up to earn the win.

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Record: 65-54, 1st, 4.5 GA Des Moines
Trailing 4-3, Dayton hit two home runs in the bottom of the ninth inning -- including a two-run walk off by pinch-hitter Carlos Longoria -- to rally to defeat St. Louis 5-4 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards (1992).
The River Walkers, who fell behind 3-0 after two innings, took the lead in the top of the eighth on a two-run homer by Manuel Coke off Flyers relief pitcher Valentin Pino.
But the St. Louis bullpen once again could not hold a lead.
In its previous game, the Walkers had given up four runs in the bottom of the ninth in a 5-4 loss at Chicago.
Ruben Cruz wasted no time tying the game leading off the inning with a solo shot off Maximiliano Minelli.
Ron Cox then took over
He got pinch-hitter Kenny Musselwhite to fly out.
But a walk to Bobby Carrasco followed.
It was then Longoria's turn and he turned on a 2-1 pitch and blasted it 404 feet over the left-field wall.
The home run was the third allowed by Cox in his last two outings and the fourth in his last four appearances.
Pilots starting pitcher Jeff Hall allowed one run on five hits over the first six innnings.
After that, it was one inning each for Jose Infante, Pino and Billy Lavala.
Lavala (8-5) was awarded his eighth win of the season.

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Record: 65-55, 1st, 4.5 GA Des Moines
For the third consecutive game, St. Louis lost in walk-off fashion as Dayton's Hsin-pin Mei led off the bottom of the 10th inning with a home run off River Walkers reliever Nick Ruffalo to give the Pilots a 5-4 win at Oriole Park at Camden Yards (1992).
The River Walkers have lost their previous two games on walk-off homers.
St. Louis jumped out to a 4-0 lead in this game.
Manuel Coke hit a solo homer in the top of the first off Dayton starting pitcher Carlos Calderon to make it 1-0.
The Walkers tallied twice in the second, pitcher Josh McDonald driving in one run with a bunt and Bob Saavedra the other with a single.
An RBI single from Zach Wenman in the fifth off Calderon made it 4-0.
The Pilots didn't get their first hit of the game off McDonald until Justin Johnson led off the sixth with a single.
Two batters later, it was 4-2, as Matt Freudenberg delivered his 24th home run of the season.
Dayton sliced that deficit to a run in the seventh.
Mike Casebolt doubled with two outs and scored on a Carlos Longoria single.
St. Louis closer Bobby Westerman got a chance for a save in the ninth, but instead racked up his eighth blown save.
Kenny Musselwhite scored the tying run after leading off with a double.
He scored when Casebolt tripled with one out.
Calderon worked five innings, allowing four runs on nine hits. He struck out six and walked one.
Ryan Wimbush and John Wolfe both followed with scoreless innings.
Jonathan Graham got the first two outs of the eighth.
Valenin Pino finished the eighth and pitched a scoreless ninth.
For the second straight day, Bobby Lavala (9-5) got a win in relief.
This time he pitched a scoreless top of the 10th.

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The St. Louis River Walkers have claimed left-handed relief pitcher Jose Tapia off of waivers from the Milwaukee Crushers and sent 25-year-old lefty Ron Cox to AAA Memphis.
Tapia, 33, last pitched in the majors for the Crushers in an 8-7 win over Rockford on August 10.
He pitched in five games this season for Milwaukee, going 1-0 with a 3.00 ERA. He has pitched six innings and struck out four while posting a 1.50 WHIP.
In his major league career, which includes stops in Akron, Grand Rapids, Peoria along with Milwaukee, Tapia has pitched in 167 (all in relief) and posted a record of 10-4 with three saves and a 4.38 ERA.
It's been a rough season for Cox, who first joined the Walkers in 2035 and and not returned to the minors since.
In 45 games this season, Cox has gone 4-1 with one save but a 5.03 ERA. He has pitched a total of 53.2 innings, striking out 68, but posting a 1.45 WHIP and allowing 13 home runs.

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Record: 66-55, 1st, 5.5 GA Des Moines
Rookie Ming Xiang picked up his 12th win of the season by allowing two runs over 6.1 innings, and St. Louis snapped a three-game losing streak with a 5-2 win over Dayton at Oriole Park at Camden Yards (1992).
Xiang, who had dropped his previous two starts, gave up a single run in the bottom of the second inning and a one-out double to Josh Knutson in the bottom of the seventh before exiting the game.
Knutson would end up scoring on a Carlos Longoria two-out double off Maximiliano Minelli which made it 5-2.
Altogether, Xiang (12-6) allowed two runs on four hits over his 6.1 innings. He struck out 12 and walked one.
Minelli managed to get out of the seventh with the score still 5-2.
Mark Pendleton got the first out of the eighth but also walked two batters.
Scott Rissler bailed out Pendleton and then pitched a scoreless ninth for his third save.
The River Walkers took a 2-0 lead with single runs in each of the first two innings off Pilots starting pitcher Rob Reed.
Bob Saavedra led off the game with a single and scored on a one-out single by Manuel Coke.
Rookie Mark Waterson hit his 15h homer of the season in the second to make it 2-0.
The remainder of the Walkers runs came in the fifth.
With Reed still on the mound, Saavedra again led off with a single.
A bunt by Jackson Miller moved him to second.
Another single by Coke put runners at the corners.
Mark Herman scored them both.
Herman, who took third on a throw to the plate, scored on a deep fly ball by Waterson.

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Record: 67-55, 1st, 6.5 GA Des Moines
Down 3-1, St. Louis scored three runs in the top of the third and added two more in the fifth before holding on for a 7-6 win over Dayton at Oriole Park at Camden Yards (1992).
The victory gave the River Walkers a split of the four-game series.
Bobby Carrasco hit a two-run homer off St. Louis starting pitcher Jesse McNaboe in the bottom of the first inning to give the Flyers a 2-1 lead.
When Mark Dow ripped McNaboe for a solo shot in the bottom of the second, that advantage reached 3-1.
St. Louis snatched back the lead in the top of the third when Manuel Coke cranked a three-run homer off Dayton starter Sean Reznik.
Coke had five RBIs in the victory.
Up 4-3, the Walkers would not trail again.
They added their advantage with two runs in the top of the fifth.
Mark Herman led off the inning with a triple and scored on a Coke single off Reznik.
Coke later scored on a two-out single by Jackson Miller off reliever Jose Infante.
Dayton drew back to within 6-4 with a run off McNaboe in the bottom of the fifth.
Mike Casebolt led off the inning with a single and scored on a two-out single by Hsin-ping Mei.
The Pilots drew within a run in the sixth when Doug Brinton led off with a homer off St. Louis reliever Greg Sones.
Mark Waterson answered that bomb with his 16th homer of the season, it came off Valentin Pino, with two outs in the top of the seventh.
St. Louis led 7-5.
Casebolt knocked one over the wall, the pitch courtesy of Maximiliano Minelli, to lead off the seventh as Dayton drew back to within 7-6.
McNaboe (7-8) earned the win despite allowing four runs on four hits over five innings. He struck out four and walked one.
It took six relievers for St. Louis to close out the game.
Sones (0.2 IP) and Minelli (0.2) both pitched two-thirds of an innings.
Nick Ruffalo (1.0) recorded three outs.
Brett McVey (0.1) and Jose Tapia (0.1) both recorded just one out.
Bobby Westerman walked a batter but didn't allow a run in the ninth for his 19th save.

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MBL news: August 24 -- Week 20 - Awards and standings

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Record: 68-55, 1st, 7 GA Quad City and Springfield
Trailing 3-2 in the top of the eighth inning, St. Louis scored a pair of runs and held on to defeat Des Moines 4-3 at Green Canyon Park.
Nick Shaw led off the inning with a double off Harvesters relief pitcher Mark Polzin.
Abdul-Nasser bin Amr scored Shaw with a one-out double.
Marcos Francis put the River Walkers in front with a two-out single to score bin Amr.
Both team scored twice in the second inning.
Jackson Miller hit a two-run homer for the Walkers off Des Moines starting pitcher Lenyn Crisp.
Crisp spent the minor-league portion of his career with the Walkers.
In the bottom of the second, Corey Jordan tripled off St. Louis starter Xavier Wigfall to score a run.
The next batter, Zigza Mukuru, scored Jordan with a single.
The Harvesters took the lead an inning later when David Tapley doubled to score Hector Hidalgo who had led off with a single.
Wigfall went six innings, allowing three runs on four hits. He struck out eight and walked three.
Scott Rissler (5-4) earned the win after pitching a 1-2-3 seventh inning.
Greg Sones handled the eighth without allowing a run.
A perfect ninth earned Bobby Westerman his 20th save.

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Looking to bolster their struggling bullpen, the St. Louis River Walkers have removed left-hander Armando Cintron from the injured list and called up right-hander Elvis Pool from AAA Memphis.
Cintron, 34, has been with the Walkers since the start of the season but has been injured three separate times since July 9, twice spending time on the 10-day injured list.
The left-handers first two injuries were to the elbow on his throwing arm. The most recent, which occurred August 14, was to his back.
Cintron has pitched well when available this season, going 2-0 with five saves and a 2.36 ERA in 38 games.
St. Louis picked up Pool in a July 7 trade with Peoria.
The Walkers sent veteran center fielder Jose Segura and right-handed reliever Mike Fagan to Peoria in the deal.
Pool has been playing professional baseball since 2025, but only pitched seven games in the majors in four different seasons.
He last appearance in the majors was for Louisville in 2035.
Pool got into two games that season for the Sluggers and went 0-0 with a 27.00 ERA over two-thirds of an inning.
This season, Pool was suffered a torn meniscus during spring training and didn't make his first appearance until July 20 for Memphis against Iowa.
Pool pitched in nine games for the Redbirds, going 1-0 with three saves and a 0.69 ERA.
Getting sent down were 24-year-old right-hander Maximiliano Minelli and left-hander Mark Pendleton.
Minelli was sent to Memphis. Pendleton went to AA Springfield.
Minelli started the season in St. Louis before getting sent down. He returned to the Walkers' roster on July 7.
In 25 games with St. Louis this season, Minelli has gone 0-1 with one save and a 4.56 ERA in 25 games.
Pendleton has had two brief tenures with St. Louis this season having pitched in three games. He compiled no record or ERA.