{"id":149874,"date":"2022-09-24T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T13:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/cardinals-albert-pujols-bashes-2-homers-reaches-700-for-career"},"modified":"2022-09-24T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T13:57:22","slug":"cardinals-albert-pujols-bashes-2-homers-reaches-700-for-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/cardinals-albert-pujols-bashes-2-homers-reaches-700-for-career","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals&#8217; Albert Pujols bashes 2 homers, reaches 700 for career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 24 (UPI) &#8212; Slugger Albert Pujols connected for a pair of home runs Friday in the St. Louis Cardinals &#8216; 11-0 blitz of the Los Angeles Dodgers , becoming only fourth player in history to reach 700 career long balls. St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols celebrates after hitting his 700th career home run in the fourth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Friday. Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI Pujols, 42, belted career homer No. 699 against left-hander Andrew Heaney in the third inning at Dodger Stadium before hitting his historic No. 700 off right-hander Phil Bickford in the next frame. With the second blast, he joined Barry Bonds (762 home runs), Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714) as the only sluggers in major league history to hit at least 700 career homers. Pujols and Aaron are the only members of the elite club who have also collected 3,000 hits. Playing in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slugger Albert Pujols connected for a pair of home runs Friday in the St. Louis Cardinals&#8217; 11-0 blitz of the Los Angeles Dodgers, becoming only fourth player in history to<\/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-149874","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\/149874","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=149874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}