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Walkers news: August 16 -- Ann Arbor 8, St. Louis 7
Record: 70-47, 1st, Tied with Des Moines
Ann Arbor smacked five home runs to help overcome a 6-1 deficit and defeat St. Louis 8-6 at Crosley Field (1958).
By winning the final two games of the series, the Wolf Pack two of three games from the River Walkers. St. Louis dropped back into a tie for the National League South Division with the loss.
The Wolf Pack chipped two runs off a five-run deficit in the bottom of the fifth inning when Dansby Swanson and Peter Alonso hit back-to-back solo homers off St. Louis starting pitcher Kyle Hendricks.
Ann Arbor then really went to work in the sixth, going deep three times in a five-run frame.
Adam Jones struck first with a three-run shot off reliever Reyes Moronta. Alonso plated the other two with his second long ball in as many innings.
His 397-foot shot into the right-field seats also came off Moronta, this one with two outs.
A solo homer from Rhys Hoskins off Ann Arbor closer Edwin Diaz to open the ninth pulled the Walkers to within 8-7.
Bo Bichette later connected for a one-out double, but he would get no farther. Diaz got Tucker Barnhart to fly out for the second out.
Adeiny Hechavarria went down swinging to end it.
Ann Arbor starting pitcher Mitch Keller went four innings and allowed the first six St. Louis runs.
Trevor Cahill kept the Walkers off the board in the fifth and sixth innings, helping him earn his second win of the season.
Brad Hand, Jonathon Holder and Diaz all pitched an inning apiece to end it.
The save was the 24th for Diaz.
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