Sunday, 23 October 2011

Albert Pujols.


José Alberto Pujols Alcántara better known as Albert Pujols is a Dominican professional baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball. Currently a first baseman, Pujols is considered one of the top players in Major League Baseball, and was the most feared hitter in baseball in 2008, according to a poll of all 30 MLB managers.On July 30, at Busch Stadium in the eighth inning against the Cubs, he got his 2,000th career hit, a double down the left-field line. It was in his 1,650th game, becoming the fifth Cardinal player to get 2,000 hits, joining Stan Musial (3,630), Lou Brock (2,713), Rogers Hornsby (2,110), and Enos Slaughter (2,064). He is the 12th quickest player by games to get to 2,000.
On August 14, facing the Rockies, he hit the longest home run at Busch Stadium, estimated to be about 465 feet.
He missed extending his record to 11 consecutive seasons from the start of his career on hitting .300 with 30+ home runs and 100 RBIs, when he hit 37 home runs but batted .299 and had 99 RBIs in 147 games played in missing 13 games due to injury. Despite the career lows in batting average and RBIs and a home run total that was five from his career worst, Pujols was matched by only three other players in the majors in those categories—Jose Bautista, Prince Fielder and Matt Kemp. The New York Times wrote, "Even when Pujols struggles, he excels.
On October 22, in the third game of the World Series, Pujols may have had the greatest offensive game in World Series history when he joined Babe Ruth (1926, 1928) and Reggie Jackson (1977) as the only players in baseball history to hit three home runs in a single World Series game. Pujols was 5-for-6 with two singles, four runs scored, and six RBIs. Pujols became the first player in World Series history to get hits in four consecutive innings: 6th (HR, 3-RBI), 7th (HR, 2 RBI), 8th (single), and 9th (HR, RBI). He tied records for most hits (5), most RBIs (6) in a World Series game, and established a new record with 14 total bases. Game 3 was his 70th post-season game. In those 70 games, he has 254 at-bats with 87 hits and is hitting .343 with a .444 on-base percentage, and a .630 slugging percentage, with 18 home runs and 52 RBIs.

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