ST. LOUIS (AP) -Imagine the confusion of San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy, awakened in his hotel room by a Midwestern earthquake early Friday.
“I had to think whether I was in San Francisco or on the road,” Bochy said before the Giants opened a three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals. “I don’t know if you ever would have thought we’d leave San Francisco and have an earthquake.”
A 5.2 magnitude quake, believed to have involved an extension of the New Madrid Fault in the Missouri Bootheel, struck before dawn. There was little damage and no serious injuries, yet it got the attention of those from earthquake country.
Bochy, the longtime manager of the San Diego Padres and in his second year with the Giants, said he’s experienced four earthquakes, including a major quake in 1994. He wasn’t minimizing the effect of Friday’s tremor.
“I felt it,” he said. “It was a pretty good one.”
Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, whose home is in northern California, slept through the earthquake. He didn’t feel any of the aftershocks, one of which had a magnitude of 4.6, either.
“I know a lot of people did, but I didn’t,” La Russa said. “Nope.”
Cardinals outfielder Skip Schumaker, who lives in Huntington Beach, Calif., wasn’t impressed.
“I’ve been through a few of them,” Schumaker said. “I just thought it was a storm.”
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