A long game filled with a 20-minute delay for lights, five errors, an inside-the-park home run and a challenge ended with the St. Paul Saints losing 11-9 to the Iowa Cubs, snapping St. Paul’s nine-game road winning streak.

Matt Wallner, Chris Williams and Yunior Severino each homered for the Saints. Brooks Lee had three hits.

Randy Dobnak started and pitched five innings. He allowed three runs but all the runs were unearned as the Saints committed three errors. Jeff Brigham allowed two runs in the sixth inning in his one inning of relief to blow the save. Nick Wittgren (1-1) took the loss, allowing two runs in two relief innings as the Cubs scored six times in the seventh to take control.

Wallner’s homer was his 19th of the season, which is two behind Memphis Luken Baker for the league lead. Severino hit his 15th home run of the season.

Wallner, Williams and Severino each hit their homers in each of the first three innings. Wallner opened the scoring with a two-run homer in the first. Williams followed with a two-run shot in the second and Severino added a solo home run in the third.

But Iowa scored all three of its runs in the middle three innings.

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