St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols did not make the cross-state trip for Monday’s game against the Boston Red Sox because of discomfort in his lower back.

The three-time National League MVP did not play Sunday against the Florida Marlins — a scheduled day off — and is not expected to play against the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday, a game also being played in Fort Myers.

“We’ll definitely give him tomorrow,” said Cardinals manager Tony La Russa. “Even if we were home, I don’t think he’d play. We’ll see how he feels on Wednesday.”

Pujols first experienced discomfort in his back on Sunday. Joe Mather will take his place at first base against the Red Sox.

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Albert Pujols didn’t make a lot of friends at PETCO Park on Sunday. He frustrated the hometown team and fans with his bat, hitting his 40th home run of the year in the fourth inning. Two frames later, he got into a dustup with Padres rookie Will Venable over a play at first base.


Pujols reached the 40-homer plateau for the fifth time in his career, and it’s the 11th 40-homer season in the history of the Cardinals franchise. Pujols, Mark McGwire, Johnny Mize, Rogers Hornsby and Jim Edmonds are the only players to hit 40 in a season for the Cardinals. Pujols is the 20th player in Major League history with five 40-homer seasons, according to baseball-reference.com.


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St. Louis manager Tony La Russa repeated the same thing over and over again during Albert Pujols’ brief slump.

Pujols hit a grand slam in the 10th inning for his second homer of the game and the Cardinals rallied to beat the sliding New York Mets 12-7 on Tuesday.

Pujols finished with four hits and five RBIs for the Cardinals, snapping out of an 0-for-13 skid with his ninth multihomer game of the season. Ryan Ludwick also went deep and drove in two runs for St. Louis.

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King Albert leads the NL in homers and RBIs and ranks second in batting average

Albert Pujols has won two MVP awards and is shooting for a third this season. He also is unanimously considered the best player in baseball, and now he has a chance to win the Triple Crown. There’s a reason no one has won the Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski accomplished the feat in 1967 and, in the National League, since Joe Medwick in 1937: It’s really hard to do, perhaps harder than ever.

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Baseball fans made their voices heard, and they made it abundantly clear: this season and this All-Star Game belong to Albert Pujols.

The Cardinals slugger was the top online vote-getter and top overall vote-getter in balloting for the 2009 All-Star Game, the second time in his career that he has received each of those designations. He was similarly recognized in 2006. The game is set for July 14 at Busch Stadium.

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