Not to long ago, I was writing about Tyler O’Neill’s bat carrying him to some fairly impressive ranks in St. Louis Cardinals homerun hitting history. Today, it is one bomb in particular that inspires another extermination of his hitting abilities.
With one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, O’Neill connected with a 3-0 pitch. Thank goodness he had the green light. Nick Burdi was on the mound for the Pirates, and he might have gotten a case of whiplash after the Cardinals rookie hit the ball 457 feet to left-center field.