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Record: 11-4, 1st, 1.5 GA Quad City and Springfield
Manuel Coke went 3 for 4 with two home runs, three runs scored and four RBIs, as St. Louis routed Des Moines 12-5 at Busch Stadium (2006).
Coke's first homer came in the bottom of the first off Harvesters starting pitcher Dave Vacarri.
It drove in the first two runs of what would turn out to be a five-run inning for St. Louis.
Marcos Francis also drove in two runs in the inning, with a two-out single.
Coke went deep again, his fifth homer of the season, in the sixth.
Another two-run shot, this one off reliever Bill Brooks, to make the score 10-3.
In between the Coke homers, St. Louis had scored a pair of runs in the fourth.
Jackson Miller drove in a run with a triple off Jeremy Sudbury.
Miller later scored when Nick Shaw reached on an error by first baseman Leo Cerna while Brooks was on the mound.
Those runs made it 7-3, in favor of the Walkers.
After Des Moines drew within 10-5 with a pair of runs in the top of the seventh, the Walkers added single runs in the seventh -- Bob Saavedra with a sacrifice fly off Lawrence Caulfield -- and eighth -- Abdul-Nasser bin Amr with a run-scoring single off Josh Crespo -- to cap the scoring.
Walkers starter Edward Kunselman (1-0) allowed three runs (one earned) on five hits in six innings. He struck out five and didn't walk a batter.
Ryan Marzella pitched two innings, allowing a pair of runs in the seventh.
Ron Cox struck out the side in the top of the ninth.