Albert Pujols

Pujols took the mound in the ninth inning with the Cardinals leading 15-2 against the San Francisco Giants. He allowed three runs but finished off the game.

Pujols, who allowed a pair of home runs, became the oldest player to make his major league pitching debut since 1929.

St. Louis rookie outfielder Juan Yepez singled in the first inning. The Mets had not announced a starter yet. Gonzalez got the Giants' first hit with a two-out single in the fifth. He gave up a three-run homer to Luis Gonzalez and a solo shot to Joey Bart but managed to get the final three outs with plenty of margin to spare. Wainwright and Molina broke the major league record with their 203rd victory as a starting battery. The 40-year-old right-hander retired 14 of the first 15 batters he faced.

St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols pitched the ninth inning Sunday, joining Babe Ruth in MLB history.

Pujols is fifth on the all-time home run list with 679 career bombs. With St. Louis crushing the Giants 15-2 in the top of the ninth inning, Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol figured why not. The St. Louis Cardinals entered their Sunday Night Baseball contest against the San Francisco Giants three games over .500, at 18-15.

The Cardinals' 15-6 win over the Giants on Sunday night ended with veteran slugger Albert Pujols on the mound.

St. Louis rookie outfielder Juan Yepez singled in the first inning. Some pretty historic things happened to me in this game." Every St. Louis starter had a hit by the sixth inning. Gonzalez got the Giants' first hit with a two-out single in the fifth. He gave up a three-run homer to Luis Gonzalez and a solo shot to Joey Bart but managed to get the final three outs with plenty of margin to spare. He gave up a run-scoring single to Dylan Carlson before getting Harrison Bader to fly out. Wainwright and Molina broke the major league mark with their 203rd victory as a starting battery. Pujols was 2-for-3 at the plate with a double. "The thing is, I couldn't even get it there," he said. "A dream come true to say that I did it," said Pujols, fifth on the career list with 681 home runs. The 40-year-old right-hander retired 14 of the first 15 batters he faced. Molina homered and drove in four runs, Wainwright pitched six effective innings and St. Louis roughed up Carlos Rodon early.

In a 22-year career, future Hall of Famer Albert Pujols has done just about everything on the baseball field. That is, until he took the mound at Busch ...

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For the first time in 22 seasons, Albert Pujols took the mound on Sunday night.

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Albert Pujols, the Cardinals' designated hitter, came into Sunday night's win as a pitcher for the first time in his career in the ninth inning.

The Mets had not announced a starter yet. Pujols was 2 for 3 at the plate with a double. “Unsure if it’s the same area,” Marmol said. “That (homer) just capped off the night. St. Louis rookie outfielder Juan Yepez singled in the first inning. Every St. Louis starter had a hit by the sixth inning. He gave up a three-run homer to Luis Gonzalez and a solo shot to Joey Bart but managed to get the final three outs with plenty of margin to spare. Wainwright and Molina broke the major league mark with their 203rd victory as a starting battery. Gonzalez got the Giants’ first hit with a two-out single in the fifth. The 40-year-old right-hander retired 14 of the first 15 batters he faced. “A dream come true to say that I did it,” Pujols said. “The thing is, I couldn’t even get it there.

Carlos Rodón hadn't allowed a first-pitch hit all year, but perennial Giants'...

One S.F. highlight: The Giants did have a notable moment: Joc Pederson hit his first homer since missing three games at the end of April with a groin strain. “I was up like sixth or fifth, and I was just praying I got to hit off him.” I just have a lot of respect for the three of those guys.” “Every time I look at him, I think, ‘You rake, you know how to manage an at-bat.’” Molina also homered in the fifth, and Goldschmidt had three hits, including a double, to go with three RBIs and three runs. Molina, also a likely Hall of Famer, is in his 19th season. “Honestly, I would put Wainwright into a near identical category,” Kapler said. In the ninth, he walked Darin Ruf and gave up a single to Evan Longoria before giving up a three-run homer by Luis González — who was by then pitching for the Giants — and a solo shot by Joey Bart. “I threw a lot of strikes, but they got hit.” “Everyone was laughing and joking around and stoked,” González said. He’s a lifetime .298 hitter against San Francisco, with 28 homers and 103 RBIs in 154 games. Boom, St. Louis had four quick runs off Rodón, who hadn’t allowed more than two in his first six starts of the season.

The average MLB fan may think there's nothing left for Albert Pujols to do in terms of firsts.

He came out for the ninth inning as the Cardinals were up 15-2. On Sunday night against the San Francisco Giants, he reminded fans there was at least one thing he hasn’t done – take the mound. In the middle of the St. Louis Cardinals’ blowout against the Giants, Pujols made the trip to the bump for the first time in his 22-year career.

For several weeks, Cardinals right-hander Adam Wainwright has been saying that the team win total for the games in which he pitches to catcher Yadier Molina ...

The 311 starts in tandem left Wainwright and Molina six short of Spahn/Crandall for second place in that category and 13 behind first-place Mickey Lolich and the late Bill Freehan of the Detroit Tigers. Knizner added one to that total in the seventh when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. It was 7-0, and Rodon, who entered with a 1.80 ERA, was gone after giving up 10 of the Cardinals’ 17 hits, six of which went for extra bases. After Tommy Edman opened with a single to right out of the reach of second baseman Wilmer Flores, Goldschmidt jumped on a low 96 mph four-seamer and launched it into Big Mac Land in left field. Goldschmidt put a quick end to that in the first inning. Wainwright (4-3) limited the Giants to only one hit over the first five innings before being tagged for a two-run Joc Pederson homer in the sixth.

Giants manager Gabe Kapler turned to outfielder Luis Gonzalez at the end of the bottom of the seventh and for the entire bottom of the eighth, ...

He didn't strike out anyone and his career ERA now stands at 36.00. With one out and one runner on, Evan Longoria singled to left field. Might as well try to save an inning on the arms of their relievers, right?

ST. LOUIS -- Rookie outfielder Luis González summed it up best: “It was just a wild night.” The Giants dropped two out of three games to the Cardinals ...

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With San Francisco trailing 14-2 with two outs in the seventh, Kapler decided to summon González to the mound, making the 26-year-old outfielder the first Giants position player to pitch in a game since Austin Slater on Aug. 30, 2021.\n\nGonzález, who logged 36 career pitching appearances at the University of New Mexico, gave up only a single to Dylan Carlson while throwing 23 pitches, with his offerings ranging from 42 mph to 85 mph." But hitting a homer off Albert Pujols, that’s pretty surreal.” “It’s pretty close,” González said. “It wasn’t very good,” Rodón said. “I threw a lot of strikes, but they got hit. “I thought it was just great theater,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler said. Joey Bart added a solo shot, causing Pujols to walk away with a 36.00 ERA following the first pitching appearance of his 22-year career. I think it was just what was needed, at least for our side.

The St. Louis Cardinals got to have some fun as they faced the San Francisco Giants. While up by a large margin, the Cardinals let Albert Pujols pitch.

And yeah, Pujols did get the opportunity to pitch. Sunday evening, the St. Louis Cardinals took the chance to have some fun. While Pujols wasn’t particularly effective, he didn’t really need to be.

After Brett Phillips was offered up as a sacrificial lamb for the Rays against the Angels Tuesday in Reid Detmers' no-hitter, Pujols got to enjoy pitching the ...

Don't expect to see Pujols sliding into the closing role any time soon, but he was a good sport after the game. Pujols is the second player in MLB history to have 600 home runs and make at least one pitching appearance, with Babe Ruth being the other. Lena Blackburne may not carry the weight in his name Ruth or Cobb do, but his legacy lingers more than nearly anyone in MLB history. Cobb had 3,821 hits at the time of the appearance. The Cardinals would win the game 15-6, but only after Pujols gave up back-to-back home runs to Luis Gonzalez and Joey Bart. The 42-year-old DH gave up three hits, four runs, and a walk in his debut pitching outing.

Albert Pujols is a baseball legend and will some day go into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown for everything that he has done in the batter's box but last ...

He threw some heat for the final out. For real, Pujols pitched a real inning of baseball and it was a lot of fun. Albert Pujols is a baseball legend and will some day go into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown for everything that he has done in the batter’s box but last night he got to do something special and something I don’t think I ever saw coming – he got to pitch an inning for the first time in his career.

St. Louis Cardinals designated hitter Albert Pujols took the mound and had played the most games in MLB history at the time of his first pitching ...

And it was just a cool experience.” Pujols pitched the ninth inning, allowing four runs, three hits (including two home runs) and a walk. That wasn’t the only keepsake from the game. It wasn’t just a memorable experience for Pujols and the Giants batters. Former Reds star Dave Concepcion is second at 2,441. “That was a dream come true and now I can say I did it and it was fun,” Pujols told reporters, per the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Here are the most memorable moments from Albert Pujols making his first-ever pitching appearance for the St. Louis Cardinals.

With his outing on Sunday night, Pujols joined a very short list of MLB players who have hit 600 or more home runs and pitched in a game. Of course, not everything was perfect for Pujols on the mound. Pujols threw 27 pitches in his one inning of work, and 16 of those went for strikes. 17 years from now you and @A_Kniznermight break me and yadi’s record! You’ll figure it out and who knows… According to Baseball Savant, his fastest pitch registered at 69.6 mph while his slowest clocked in at 46.6 mph.

Albert Pujols was the life of the party in the Cardinals' 15-6 win against the Giants. But he fell short of being the oldest player to pitch for the first ...

But Rothrock was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double — whether that was a gift to the White Sox was not discussed in the coverage at the time. And in a sport where things can get testy in issues of sportsmanship, both teams walked away without any accusations of violations of the unwritten rules. That’s a much better reception than Blackburne and the White Sox got in 1929 after a 17-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox. Vaughan, however, saved his anger for the team rather than the manager, who had warmed up in the dugout with the backup catcher Buck Crouse before heading out for mop-up duty. There he was Sunday, a hulking first baseman in the waning days of his celebrated career, throwing 61-mile-per-hour fastballs and 54 m.p.h. curves in the ninth inning. Both were older than Satchel Paige, who got into an American League game for the first time at 42 years 2 days old in 1948 after having started his major league career in the Negro leagues in 1927.

St. Louis Cardinals legendary pitcher Adam Wainwright trolled Albert Pujols after first pitching performance on Sunday against the Giants.

Each came up together, emerged as Hall of Fame players, and remained best friends despite Pujols signing a long-term contract with the Angels in 2011. And after the game, his longtime teammate and close friend Adam Wainwright trolled him. He just so happened to allow three hits, including two home runs, and four runs in one inning pitched in the first pitching performance of his 22-year career.