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Walkers news: June 13 -- Cedar Rapids 7, St. Louis 4
Record: 38-25, 2nd, 1 GB Des Moines
Down 4-1, Cedar Rapids tallied four times in the top of the fifth inning against St. Louis starting pitcher Jesse McNaboe, and the Grapplers went on for a 7-4 win at Busch Stadium (1997).
The win gave Cedar Rapids' victories in two of the three games in the series.
The River Walkers actually jumped out to a 4-0 lead -- Jose Ramirez hit a two-run homer in the first inning and they added two more in the third -- before Cedar Rapids began its comeback with a run in the top of the fourth.
Travis Swaggerty scored that run, doubling with one out off McNaboe and scoring on the first of two triples by Jose Morillo in the game
Morillo had a huge three-game series going 6-for-9 with one double, two triples, one homer, five runs scored and eight RBIs.
Morillo's second triple came in the fifth, and it drove in the final two runs of the four-run inning.
Swaggerty drove in the first two runs, hitting just in front of Morillo.
McNaboe also walked two batters in the inning.
The final two Cedar Rapids runs came in the seventh.
Swaggerty and Morillo were again involved.
The inning opened with a walk from reliever Nick Ruffalo to Swaggerty, and Morillo followed with a single.
Josh Friedman drove in Swaggerty with another single.
Ricky Cisneros replaced Ruffalo, and was greeted by a double steal and wild throw into left field by catcher Jared Thomas which allowed Swaggerty to score.
Grapplers starting pitcher Edwin Rivera lasted four innings, allowing four runs on five hits.
But once again the Cedar Rapids bullpen was stellar.
Billy Weiner (1.1 IP), Keider Montero (1.2), Evan Palmer (1.0) and Victor Ortiz (1.0) call kept the Walkers from scoring again.
Weiner (5-2) came out of it with the win.
Ortiz upped his save total to 16.
Last edited by rink23; 02-21-2021 at 06:19 AM.
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