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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1796859" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/quick-hits-pujols-adds-finishing-touches-to-more-history-but-cardinals-walk-off-with-loss/article_0b6599fa-810f-5b7e-b95c-de95ef484e3a.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold" target="_blank">Derrick Goold</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>PITTSBURGH — The joke within the Cardinals’ dugout for the past few months as Albert Pujols stood on base after another RBI or circled them after another home run was waiting for a baseball to be rolled jollily to the dugout for authentication.</p><p>“You just stand on the dugout and wait for them to ask for the ball,” pitcher Jordan Montgomery said a few weeks ago. “And then ask who he just beat.”</p><p>With one swing, that answer was many and mighty Monday night.</p><p>Babe Ruth.</p><p>Barry Bonds.</p><p>Tied Hank Aaron.</p><p>And Bryan Reynolds even scored a cameo.</p><p></p><p>In the sixth inning of a scoreless game, Pujols drove a line drive into the seats beyond left field for his 703rd career home run and a 2-0 lead for the Cardinals. Those two RBIs vaulted him ahead of Ruth and into second place all-time with 2,216 RBIs, behind only Aaron’s 2,297. The home run was Pujols’ 370th on the road in his career, and that tied Aaron for the second-most to Bonds in Major League Baseball history. On the same swing in the city Bonds once called home, Pujols launched over him with his 263rd go-ahead home run.</p><p>That is the most in the majors since 1961.</p><p>A ballgame that the Cardinals used to keep two starting pitchers, Jose Quintana and Miles Mikolas, trucking toward their postseason assignments this weekend turned into a test of the bullpen late. Giovanny Gallegos, ink on his two-year contract extension still drying, got them out of trouble in the eighth inning only to plunge them into worse in the ninth. A bases-loaded walk gifted ONeil Cruz on four pitches escorted the Pirates to a literal walk-off 3-2 victory. But with the Pirates playing to avoid a 100th loss and the Cardinals playing because the schedule says to, the evening bent like so many recent ones — inevitably to the will of Pujols and his swings into history.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1796859, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/quick-hits-pujols-adds-finishing-touches-to-more-history-but-cardinals-walk-off-with-loss/article_0b6599fa-810f-5b7e-b95c-de95ef484e3a.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold']Derrick Goold[/URL] PITTSBURGH — The joke within the Cardinals’ dugout for the past few months as Albert Pujols stood on base after another RBI or circled them after another home run was waiting for a baseball to be rolled jollily to the dugout for authentication. “You just stand on the dugout and wait for them to ask for the ball,” pitcher Jordan Montgomery said a few weeks ago. “And then ask who he just beat.” With one swing, that answer was many and mighty Monday night. Babe Ruth. Barry Bonds. Tied Hank Aaron. And Bryan Reynolds even scored a cameo. In the sixth inning of a scoreless game, Pujols drove a line drive into the seats beyond left field for his 703rd career home run and a 2-0 lead for the Cardinals. Those two RBIs vaulted him ahead of Ruth and into second place all-time with 2,216 RBIs, behind only Aaron’s 2,297. The home run was Pujols’ 370th on the road in his career, and that tied Aaron for the second-most to Bonds in Major League Baseball history. On the same swing in the city Bonds once called home, Pujols launched over him with his 263rd go-ahead home run. That is the most in the majors since 1961. A ballgame that the Cardinals used to keep two starting pitchers, Jose Quintana and Miles Mikolas, trucking toward their postseason assignments this weekend turned into a test of the bullpen late. Giovanny Gallegos, ink on his two-year contract extension still drying, got them out of trouble in the eighth inning only to plunge them into worse in the ninth. A bases-loaded walk gifted ONeil Cruz on four pitches escorted the Pirates to a literal walk-off 3-2 victory. But with the Pirates playing to avoid a 100th loss and the Cardinals playing because the schedule says to, the evening bent like so many recent ones — inevitably to the will of Pujols and his swings into history. [/QUOTE]
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