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Record: 67-77, 5th, 9.5 GB Cedar Rapids
Kevin Hrdlicka took a shutout into the bottom of the sixth inning -- by which time St. Louis had a 4-0 lead -- and the River Walkers avoided a four-game sweep at the hands of Indianapolis downing the Racers 8-2 at the Astrodome (1995).
A three-run top of the third inning against Indy starter Steve Mahoney staked St. Louis to the lead.
Mark Herman had the big hit with a two-run triple.
He made it 3-0 when he scored on a Nick Shaw double.
Shaw collected a second RBI in the sixth with a lead-off homer off Matt Loest.
The Racers finally got on the board when Victor Romero hit a two-run homer off Hrdlicka in the sixth.
But the Walkers used the long ball to break the game open in the eighth. Mark Waterson hit a pinch-hit homer for the second straight game, this one a three-run shot off Evan Dodd.
Mike Casebolt later hit his first homer since joining St. Louis via trade on July 16.
Stephon Harrison surrendered Casebolt's solo homer.
Hrdlicka (12-8) went six innings, allowing two runs on five hits. He struck out seven and walked one.
Evan Palmer (0.2 IP) and Leo Hermosillo (0.1) combined to pitch a scoreless seventh.
Curt Donaldson and rookie Alex Ramos handled the eighth and ninth, respectively.