Maybe you won’t believe him, but former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher David Coggin swears that when he plunked Scott Rolen in his second game back at Veterans Stadium, it wasn’t purpose.
Less than a month after being traded by the Phillies, Rolen’s new team, the St. Louis Cardinals, came to town. Rolen went 2-4 in his first game back in Philly, hitting between Albert Pujols and Tino Martinez in Tony La Russa’s lineup. Coggin started the second game of the series, and in the top of the second, proceeded to hit Rolen, something that he says was just an unfortunate mistake.