Double-A Tulsa used the longball Tuesday to survive a slugfest against Springfield, and it was a slumping player who did the most damage in the process.

Tim Wheeler, Thomas Field and Ben Paulsen hit back-to-back-to-back homers for the Drillers in the eighth inning en route to a 17-11 victory.

Field went 5-for-5 with three runs scored and two RBIs. He had been in a 4-for-29 funk entering play and had not gone yard since July 5, when hit his second solo homer in as many games against San Antonio.

A 24th-round pick by the Rockies in 2008, Field is batting .278 with 12 homers and 46 RBIs in 89 Texas League games.

The 24-year-old second baseman enjoyed a breakout season for Modesto in 2010, tying for fifth in the California League with a .397 OPB and smacking 15 homers for the Nuts.

After watching the Cardinals claim an 11-9 lead after the seventh, the Drillers responded with six in the eighth. Wheeler smacked a two-run homer, Field blasted the first pitch of his at-bat over the wall in left-center field and Paulsen capped the inning with his 12th homer of the season. All three longballs came at the expense of reliever Brett Zawacki.

The seven Tulsa homers were the most Springfield has ever allowed in a game.

MLB.com's No. 31 prospect Wilin Rosario got the offense started with a two-run blast in the first. Brian Rike hit a solo homer in the second and Bronson Sardinha delivered a two-run longball in the fourth. Hector Gomez, who had two homers and seven RBIs on Monday, went yard in the ninth to cap the scoring.