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- Updated: August 2, 2016
ST. LOUIS — Monday night, a pitch was not a ball thrown from the mound to home plate, but the name of the field. An international soccer match was played at Busch Stadium III for just the fifth time in the facility’s history and ended with AS Roma defeating Liverpool, 2-1.
“It was an honor to be here in this historic place,” Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said. “We tried to do our best. Obviously, it wasn’t enough tonight, but it was not because of the stadium. It was not because of the crowd. They were fantastic. “
The match was part of the International Champions Cup, which pits teams from Europe against each other in a series of preseason matches in a tournament style to prepare for their regular seasons.
The goals stood in left field and in foul territory down the first-base line with the field aligned north to south. It was oriented east to west in prior games, but a Cardinals game four days away required the pitcher’s mound to remain untouched. The infield from first …
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