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Record: 3-6, 6th, 3 GB Springfield
St. Louis starting pitcher Kyle Hendricks left in the fourth inning with a minor thumb injury, but the River Walkers still managed to take a no-hitter into the seventh in a 5-1 win over Cedar Rapids at Busch Stadium (1997).
With the win, St. Louis took two of three games from the Golden Grapplers.
Hendricks was injured while covering first base while recording the second out of the fourth inning. He is expected to be available to make his next start.
Cedar Rapids first hit did not come until the seventh when Joc Pederson singled with two outs off Bobby Poyner.
The Grapplers only other hit came in the eighth when Alex Bregman led off with a single off Reyes Moronta. He later scored on a bases-loaded walk to Victor Robles from Moronta.
In addition to not allowing a hit in his 3.2 innings, Hendricks did not walk a batter either while striking out four.
John Curtiss followed him to the mound and did not allow a base runner in his three innings on the mound. Poyner got the final out of the seventh inning.
Moronta struggled again recording just one out, his ERA sits at 45.00, but Jake Diekman bailed him out by retiring four in a row to end it and record his first save.
Back-to-back doubles from Ender Inciarte and Christian Arroyo off Cedar Rapids starting pitcher Brandon Finnegan in the first inning put the Walkers up 1-0.
After three innings it was 4-0, Andrew Benintedni plated the first run with a double. Rhys Hoskins notched the other two with a homer off Finnegan.

Finnegan surrendered a solo homer to Ender Inciarte to open the fifth.