Sunday Night Baseball Game 2: Cardinals at Cubs

I have attended two other day-night doubleheaders at Wrigley Field – all versus the St. Louis Cardinals. The first occurred on August 31, 2002 and the second on September 2, 2003. One problem with the day-night doubleheader is that there is a lot of time in between the two games. Yesterday Game 1 ended at 3 pm and Game 2 did not start until 7 pm.

The Game
The Cardinals avoided the doubleheader sweep by defeating the Cubs 4-2 in the second game. The most interesting move of the game came when Lou Piniella moved left-handed reliever Sean Marshall to left field for one batter and brought Aaron Heilman to face Brendan Ryan – Heilman technically replaced Alfonso Soriano. After Ryan struck out, Piniella pulled Heilman bringing Marshall back to pitch and putting Reed Johnson in left field. The move worked as Marshall got the last two outs of the inning to keep the score 4-2 (even though Reed Johnson technically “trapped” Colby Rasmus’ fly ball to left field, but third base umpire Randy Marsh called him out).