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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.

Click here to read the full article – By Tim Kurkjian of ESPN.com

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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.

Click here to read the full article – By Matthew Leach of MLB.com

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The Cardinals got good injury reports on both Yadier Molina and Colby Rasmus on Tuesday, and both were available for Tuesday night’s game against the Giants at Busch Stadium.

Molina, who bruised his right thigh during a collision at home plate with the Twins’ Michael Cuddyer on Saturday afternoon, felt better after two days off and returned to the starting lineup. The left-handed-hitting Rasmus missed Monday’s game with a hiatal hernia but wasn’t in the lineup on Tuesday because the Giants sent lefty Randy Johnson to the hill.

Click here to read the full article – By B.J. Rains of MLB.com

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