Watch: Albert Pujols chasing historical records after records, sets milestone with homer off 450th pitcher
Albert Pujols
Albert Pujols has been on fire for the entire longevity of the month of August, The Machine has heated up and is chasing the exclusive 700 home run club. The St. Louis Cardinals improved to 21-6 this month, one of their finest Augusts in franchise history. Pujols hit career home run No. 694, and it came against a 450th different pitcher, a Major League record.
Albert Pujols new target was Cincinnati Reds’ reliever Ross Detwiler, continuing his farewell tour in yet another National League city that he’s stung in years past. He hit a 369-foot homer off an 0-2 fastball from Detwiler that was just off the plate, and its Albert Pujols’ first opposite-field homer of the season.
“That’s what we’ve been doing all year long,” Albert Pujols said. “One guy, one day is going to have a big game — like tonight it was [O’Neill who] carries our ballclub. To be able to help each other out and pick each other up,”
“I think that’s what we’ve been doing right before the All-Star break and right after the break … we’re playing great baseball. [It’s] what we were expecting to do all year long, but sometimes it takes a little long to do that.” Added Albert Pujols.
Skipper Oliver Marmol is impressed by the performance of Albert Pujols and his St. Louis Cardinals
“I think all these guys are feeding off of each other right now. And when Albert Pujols gets hot, it gives everybody confidence,” Marmol said. “You see it when Nolan [Arenado] and [Paul Goldschmidt] do their thing. It’s just everybody feeds off of each other.”
“I tell you, that group isn’t thinking about winning [that] last series right now. They’re completely moving on to today,” Oliver Marmol said. “I think what allows us to be good is … [we’re] done with a series like that and no one cares in that clubhouse.
“If we would have lost that series, no one cares in that clubhouse. That’s a really good way to not ride the highs and the lows. It’s done. [It’s just] we did our job, or we didn’t do our job … and now we have something that we have to accomplish today.”
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