Albert Pujols

Albert Pujols swings for the fences - and for age (update): Albert Pujols hit three home runs last night, great performance for the match and one of the baseball.But to do so in the world championship? Well, I was there in 1977 (three years before he was born Albert Pujols) to see the New York Yankees' Reggie Jackson - "Mr. October" - to follow suit. And then, way, way, way back in 1928, to see Babe Ruth draw the same record in 1926 for three homers in a game world championship.

Left the sports scribes - not known to the lack of topness - more - spraying it searched for comparison with other events in human history, "Lincoln at Gettysburg. Hendrix at Woodstock. Albert Pujols in Arlington," wrote commentator sports photographer Tom Verducci baseball. "It was, quite simply, the greatest night for one player in the history of the world of 620 matches played a series of ever."

The Verducci This is one game: "In addition, it must be extended to record hits in the world championships (six and Bobby Richardson, and Hideki Matsui) and hits (five, Paul Molitor, with Pujols, incredibly, got five different injuries with five and added to up to 14 total bases, two more than the previous record of the shares and Ruth Jackson - pitchers in the half, the group of six) hits - two singles and three homers. "

That "no one has ever been in this big night" almost redundant.

So he began to turn his bat in the bazooka, night (and the series in that time) was less than the difference between Albert Pujols. Hitless in the rejection of his departure from the first two games at home in St. Louis, and he made a defensive error at first base, talk with reporters about any of this. The first time up to Saturday night, based on the grounds that out.

But by the end of the evening - Texas officials paid leave and hit the hometown fans in the stadium stunned Rangers - all that was forgotten. (Although there, you can be confident in pitchers Alexi Ogando, Michael Gonzalez, and Darren Oliver, who had to watch the ball, they simply float in the stratosphere holds).

When (and if) a series gets to game (6) and returned to Busch Stadium in St. Louis, you can put the fan in response to the first time, Albert Pujols bats installed near the gate of 630 arch of the foot striking. "We hope at the end of my career, I can look back and say:" Oh my God, what a game was in Game 3 in 2011, "said Pujols, when it was over Saturday night.