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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1754580" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/pujols-arenado-knizner-homer-as-cardinals-hold-off-royals-6-5/article_77012745-ea43-5150-9385-0d67f62e1857.html#tncms-source=login[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/rhummel" target="_blank">Rick Hummel</a></p><p>The easy narrative is that Albert Pujols had his first three-hit game and first homer as a Cardinal since September 2011. But there was so much more going on at Busch Stadium Tuesday night in the Cardinals’ 6-5 interleague victory over the Kansas City Royals before an impressive April weeknight paid crowd of 40,398.</p><p>The Cardinals’ Nolan Arenado, just named Player of the Week for his exploits during the first few days of the season, got a jump on Week 2 with a two-run homer off Kansas City left-hander Daniel Lynch in the first inning.</p><p>Arenado’s third homer of the season was his sixth extra-base hit out of seven over his first four games. And he has driven in at least two runs in each of those games. The Cardinals thus scored in the first inning of their first four games for the first time since at least 1901.</p><p></p><p>But, after Pujols had followed Arenado’s homer with No. 680 of his career on his first hit of the season, the Royals tied the score only to have Cardinals backup catcher Andrew Knizner punctuate his first hit by lining it into the left-field seats. This three-run homer in the fourth broke a tie and ultimately made a winner of Jordan Hicks, who was making his first appearance in the majors since last May 1......Hicks struck out two besides inducing a double play in his two hitless innings of relief. The result of this snappy outing was the first win since May 31, 2019, to be recorded by the former Cardinals closer who soon will be starting.</p><p></p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>Albert homering in bottom of first is hopefully a sign of things to come in a special Cardinal's season.......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1754580, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/pujols-arenado-knizner-homer-as-cardinals-hold-off-royals-6-5/article_77012745-ea43-5150-9385-0d67f62e1857.html#tncms-source=login[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/rhummel']Rick Hummel[/URL] The easy narrative is that Albert Pujols had his first three-hit game and first homer as a Cardinal since September 2011. But there was so much more going on at Busch Stadium Tuesday night in the Cardinals’ 6-5 interleague victory over the Kansas City Royals before an impressive April weeknight paid crowd of 40,398. The Cardinals’ Nolan Arenado, just named Player of the Week for his exploits during the first few days of the season, got a jump on Week 2 with a two-run homer off Kansas City left-hander Daniel Lynch in the first inning. Arenado’s third homer of the season was his sixth extra-base hit out of seven over his first four games. And he has driven in at least two runs in each of those games. The Cardinals thus scored in the first inning of their first four games for the first time since at least 1901. But, after Pujols had followed Arenado’s homer with No. 680 of his career on his first hit of the season, the Royals tied the score only to have Cardinals backup catcher Andrew Knizner punctuate his first hit by lining it into the left-field seats. This three-run homer in the fourth broke a tie and ultimately made a winner of Jordan Hicks, who was making his first appearance in the majors since last May 1......Hicks struck out two besides inducing a double play in his two hitless innings of relief. The result of this snappy outing was the first win since May 31, 2019, to be recorded by the former Cardinals closer who soon will be starting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert homering in bottom of first is hopefully a sign of things to come in a special Cardinal's season....... [/QUOTE]
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