{"id":111800,"date":"2022-09-12T15:01:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/st-louis-cardinals-slugger-albert-pujols-turns-record-home-run-into-touching-fan-moment"},"modified":"2022-09-12T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:01:56","slug":"st-louis-cardinals-slugger-albert-pujols-turns-record-home-run-into-touching-fan-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/st-louis-cardinals-slugger-albert-pujols-turns-record-home-run-into-touching-fan-moment","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols turns record home run into touching fan moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If something has already happened 696 times, how much surprise can there be in the wake of a 697th occurrence? For Matt and Samantha Brown, there was more than they could have imagined. Albert Pujols crushed a high and outside fastball from Pirates reliever Chase DeJong 410 feet to slight right-center on Sunday afternoon, securing a 4-3 victory for the Cardinals which held their lead in the National League Central at eight games and reduced their magic number to clinch the division to 14. The homer, his 18th of the season, broke a tie with Alex Rodr&#237;guez to move Pujols into sole possession of fourth place on the all-time list of home run hitters, trailing only Barry Bonds, Henry Aaron, and Babe Ruth. The tie lasted only one day, with Pujols having stapled number 696 to a towering blast to left field on Saturday night. Saturday&#8217;s homer sailed toward a pedestrian ramp and a concourse at PNC Park, and a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s impressive, and then there&#8217;s unbelievable. And what we&#8217;re witnessing right now is absolutely legendary,&#8221; Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,202,58],"class_list":["post-111800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}