Perez isn't letting himself get overly excited about taking over the closing duties. "There's so much emphasis put on the ninth inning compared to any other inning in the game," he said. "But you can lose a game in the eighth just as much as you can in the ninth. And there are times when it's easier to work the ninth than the eighth, depending on where you are in the lineup." Perez briefly closed for the Cardinals at the end of the '08 season and blew a couple saves along the way. But he said nothing he experienced in that regard sticks with him the way his disastrous first outing with the Indians last summer does.
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