JUPITER, Fla. — Weather threatened to wash out an entire day of minor-league games all across the Grapefruit League on Sunday. Advisories zipped around the inboxes of minor-league officials announcing how games here were cancelled, games there were cancelled.

But games involving the St. Louis Cardinals’ affiliates went on — though not entirely as scheduled.

Some quick thinking and re-organizing by camp coordinator Mike Shildt and coaches Derek Lilliquist and Dyar Miller allowed the Cardinals to race the rain and get in all of the minor-league games. In the words of minor-league director John Vuch, the Cardinals “decided to be very aggressive in getting the games in” after checking the radar. They pushed the games up to 10 a.m., got the teams to Port St. Lucie for some of the games and there they ended … just as the rain started.

Here is what happened, early and before the weather moved in:

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Memphis 5, New Orleans 3

– PJ Walters pitched 4 2/3 innings and did not allow a run. He gave up four hits and walked two against two strikeouts. … Lefty Katsuhiko Maekawa had a line of 1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 Ks. … Marco Gonzalez, who got tagged for the walk-off home run in the 10th inning at Boston last week, pitched an inning and allowed two runs off three hits. He struck out one.

– Nick Stavinoha went 3-for-4 with a run scored and RBI. … Casey Rowlett was 3-for-4 with a stolen base. … Jon Jay was 2-for-4 with a 2-run home run. … And Tyler Greene and Brian Barton both went 1-for-3 with a walk apiece. … Mark Shorey, Bryan Anderson and Brandon Yarbrough all added singles.

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Birmingham 5, Springfield 4

– Justin Fiske allowed one run (it was earned) and two hits in his five innings. He walked two and struck out three. …  Elvis Hernandez had a line of 1.1 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 2 Ks. … And, every out reliever Kristhiam Linares got was by strike out. He pitched 1 2/3 innings, struck out five and walked one. He allowed one run on two hits as well.

– Brandon Buckman went 2-for-4 with a double. … Infielder Donovan Solano hit a three-run homer — and he also also made a nice dig and tag to stop an attempted steal. … Daryl Jones doubled. … James Rapoport and Mike Folli singled and each scored a run.

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Palm Beach 5, St. Lucie 3

– Mark Diapoules had a line of 3.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 4 BB, 4 K’s. … Richard Castillo, the teenage pitcher who excelled in his brief and surprise innings with Palm Beach last summer, worked three innings. He allowed five hits and two runs, while walking none and striking out one. … Blake King worked and inning and struck out one. … Adam Reifer got one out. He allowed a run, walked two and struck out one for that one out. … Eduardo Sanchez had a line of 0.2 IP, 1 H, 2 K’s

– Paul Vasquez was 2-for-4 with a double, two runs scored and an RBI. … Pete Kozma and Tommy Pham both tripled and scored a run. … Charlie Kingrey doubled. … Jon Edwards was 1-for-2. … Jermaine Curtis, Shane Peterson, Francisco Rivera all has singles.

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Quad Cities tied with Savannah, 1-1

– Brett Zawacki walked two, struck out and pitched three scoreless innings. … Gary Daley, who had one poiint was billed as the pitcher with the best stuff in his draft class, pitched two innings. He allowed one run on one hit and two walks. He struck one. … Eric Fornataro had a line of 2 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1K, and Dylan Gonzalez followed with a line of1 IP, 1 H, 0 ER. … David Carpenter threw a perfect inning.

– Beau Riportella was 2-for-4. … Paul Cruz went 1-for-3 with a double, an RBI and a walk. … Brian Buck singled and scored a run. … Brett Lilley, Ryde Rodriguez and Michael Swinson each singled.

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