With regular shortstop Jhonny Peralta assuming the designated hitter duties for the night in an AL ballpark , manager Mike Matheny had little other choice than to plug in Pete Kozma at short .
The results were exactly as most would have expected .
With regular shortstop Jhonny Peralta assuming the designated hitter duties for the night in an AL ballpark , manager Mike Matheny had little other choice than to plug in Pete Kozma at short , and the results were exactly as most would have expected .