Manage Delivery
St. Paul scored five runs in the first two innings against Wingnuts starter Jeff Nadeau and went on to an 8-3 victory on Saturday night in St. Paul, Minn.
Joseph Spiers had the key hit, a three-run triple in the second inning.
The Wingnuts scored two runs in the fourth on a Saints error.
John Rodriguez had three of Wichita’s seven hits.
The Wingnuts’ final two regular-season games are Sunday and Monday. Wichita’s first-round playoff series will start Wednesday at either Grand Prairie or Laredo.
| Wichita | St. Paul | ||||||||
| ab | r | h | bi | ab | r | h | bi | ||
| Khoury ss | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Spiers 2b | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Kahaulelio 2b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Frost lf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Rodriguez dh | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Cabrera dh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ziegler 1b | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Hurst ph | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Porter 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Sheldon 1b | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Peralta rf | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Bourguin 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mier c | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Durham rf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Conroy cf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Townsend ss | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Stanley lf | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Rapoport cf | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Garabedian c | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Totals 34 | 3 | 7 | 1 | Totals30 | 8 | 11 | 8 |
| Wichita | 000 | 200 | 001 | — | 3 |
| St. Paul | 140 | 102 | 00x | — | 8 |
E—Durham C7), Townsend (18). LOB—Wichita 11, St. Paul 6. DP— Wichita 1, St. Paul 2. 2B— Rapoport (12). 3B — Kahaulelio (1), Spiers (1). HR — Hurst (1). SF — Sheldon. .S — Frost. SB — Peralta (24), Conroy (21), Spiers 2 (32). CS — Frost, Durham.
| Wichita | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Nadeau L,0-2 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| Lowey | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Walters | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Simon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Paul | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Anderson | 3 2/3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| Coe W,12-5 | 1 1/3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Spottiswood | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Severtson | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Klabunde | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
HBP — by Nadeau (Cabrera, Hurst), by Klabunde (Kahaulelio). WP — Klabunde. Umpires — home, Art Thigpen; first, Sean Hicks; third, Jon Moynihan. T — 3:02. A — 4,094.
