NEW YORK — When manager Oliver Marmol and the Cardinals’ group of hitting coaches met privately with left fielder Tyler O’Neill to talk about his weekend away from the lineup, they gave him a plan, a promise, a clear goal, and something everyone in the room agreed he needed.
“They gave me a reset,” O’Neill said.
Absent from the starting lineup since Friday, O’Neill returned to left field for both halves of Tuesday’s doubleheader. His ninth-inning single in Game 1 gave the Cardinals a brief flicker before losing, 3-1, and in five of his first six at-bats Tuesday, O’Neill struck out.