{"id":246532,"date":"2022-05-23T13:21:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/cardinals-albert-pujols-homers-twice-nears-alex-rodriguez-on-all-time-list"},"modified":"2022-05-23T13:21:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:21:50","slug":"cardinals-albert-pujols-homers-twice-nears-alex-rodriguez-on-all-time-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/cardinals-albert-pujols-homers-twice-nears-alex-rodriguez-on-all-time-list","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals&#8217; Albert Pujols homers twice, nears Alex Rodriguez on all-time list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 23 (UPI) &#8212; Albert Pujols hit two home runs in an 18-4 St. Louis Cardinals blowout of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The duo of dingers brings the future Hall of Famer to within 13 homers of Alex Rodriguez for fourth in MLB history.Pujols went deep in the fifth and ninth innings of the 14-run victory Sunday at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. Cardinals center fielder Harrison Bader also homered. Second baseman Nolan Gorman gave the Cardinals a 1-0 lead with an RBI double in the top of the first. Bader, shortstop Tommy Edman, designated hitter Nolan Arenado and right fielder Brendan Donovan drove in six more runs in the second.The Cardinals carried an 11-0 lead into the top of the fifth. Pirates relief pitcher Chase De Jong retired Edman and Gorman to start the half-inning. Pujols then stepped into the box to pinch hit for Arenado. De Jong missed the zone with a slider to start the exchange. He then tossed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 23 (UPI) &#8212; Albert Pujols hit two home runs in an 18-4 St. Louis Cardinals blowout of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The duo of dingers brings the future Hall of<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-246532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246532","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=246532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}