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Record: 9-8, 3rd, 2 GM Des Moines
Making just his third major-league at-bat Larry Ernesto hit a two-run homer off Cincinnati's Jesus Liranzo with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give St. Louis an 8-6 come-from-behind win at Busch Stadium (1997).
The River Walkers at one point had trailed 6-0.
J.T. Realmuto had drawn a one-out walk from Liranzo before Ernesto's homer, which came on a 1-1 pitch and traveled 421 feet into the stands in right-center.
A four-run fifth inning was the big blow in Cincinnati building its 6-0 lead.
Up 1-0, Kyle Hendricks allowed three of the Skyline's first four batters to reach before a sacrifice fly from Travis Swaggerty scored Francisco Mejia to make it 2-0.
The next batter, Mike Trout, swatted a Hendricks pitch 366 feet for a three-run homer.
The lead grew to 6-0 in the top of the sixth, when Vladimir Guerero Jr. led off with a single off Hendricks and later scored on an error by Walkers second baseman Bo Bichette.
But somehow St. Louis rallied.
Christian Arroyo led off the seventh with a double off Cincinnati starter Corbin Burnes and scored on a fielder's choice.
Rhys Hoskins later cranked a two-run homer off reliever David Rosebloom to make it 6-3.
In the eighth, it was a big swing of the bat from Bichette, a three-run job off Ryan Castellani, which tied it at 6.
That set the stage for Ernesto's heroics in the ninth.
Hendricks worked six rough innings, allowing six runs on six hits.
John Curtiss, however, stepped up with two scoreless innings.
Alex Faedo, Bobby Poyner and Jake Brentz all recorded outs in the ninth to keep it tied.
Brentz (2-1) earned his second win.