Daily News | Cardinals’ late rally capped by reversed call hands the Phillies a 4-3 loss
ST. LOUIS — A few hours before Sunday’s game, the Phillies got as close as they’ve come to naming Matt Vierling — or anyone else, for that matter — as their No. 1 center fielder.
“Yeah, I really wanted that one. I really did,” said Vierling, who grew up in St. Louis and had at least 30 family and friends among the announced crowd of 36,112 at Busch Stadium. “It’s a tough pill to swallow. Man, it’s a hard one. I really wanted that throw. It would’ve been pretty cool. I think some of those people would’ve stood up and started cheering.”
“It’s not so much it’s hard to play Mickey as it is Vierling’s swinging the bat so well that he’s earned playing time,” Thomson said. “His on-base and his slug the last two weeks or a month has been really good — and playing all these different positions. “I’ve been happy with it,” Vierling said of his recent play. “I made some adjustments and they’ve been working. [Thomson] told me I’d be getting a little more playing time, so I want to take advantage of it and just keep doing what I’m doing.”Pitching for the third time in four days, he gave up a leadoff single to Albert Pujols, a one-out single to Edmundo Sosa, and walked pinch-hitting Paul Goldschmidt on four pitches to load the bases before Tommy Edman lifted the go-ahead sacrifice fly.
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