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Record: 69-80, 5th, 12.5 GB Cedar Rapids
Trailing 3-2, Quad City scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and went on to defeat St. Louis 5-3 at Fenway Park (1976).
The Thunder had trailed 3-0 going into the bottom of the fifth when they got their first two runs off River Walkers starting pitcher Ming Xiang.
Jim Waldron and Willie Rubio opened the inning with back-to-back singles.
Rubio later scored on a wild pitch. Waldron had been eliminated when Kane Gate hit into a double play.
Danny Morrison scored the second run with a pinch-hit homer.
Xiang was still on the mound to start the seventh but exited after giving up a lead-off double to Rubio.
Leo Hermosillo took over only to give up consecutive singles to pinch-hitters Brandon Cain and Pang Shi.
Shi's singled scored Rubio.
Hermosillo got Tony Nolasco to fly out for the inning's first out before being replaced by Juan Munoz.
Fontana Felitti spanked Munoz's third pitch into the gap in left-center scoring both runners as Q-C took a 5-3 lead.
Thunder starting pitcher Benito Diaz lasted just three innings, allowing two runs on four hits. He struck out four and walked one.
Kevin Vitale and Williams Myers both pitched two innings of scoreless relief.
Myers (8-5) would earn the win.
After that, it was Armando Guadarrama and Jason Gallahue for an inning apiece to close out the game.
Gallahue notched his 12th save.