How Albert Pujols hit home run No. 700 W

How Albert Pujols hit home run No. 700 W

A future Baseball Hall of Famer has added one more milestone to his legacy.Albert Pujols crushed his 700th career home run Friday night, blasting a breaking Devonte Wyatt Jersey ball from the Dodgers' Phil Bickford 389 feet into the left-field pavilion at Dodger Stadium.Pujols became only the fourth player in MLB history to reach 700 home runs, joining Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth. Pujols and Aaron are the only two players in MLB history with both 3,000 hits and 700 home runs.MORE: Here's the moment Pujols joined one of baseball's most Sterling Sharpe Jersey exclusive clubs. Pujols has been a menace against left-handed pitching this year, crushing 12 of his 19 home runs coming into Friday's contest against southpaws and posting a 1.144 OPS. But he had struggled against right-handers, with just a .661 Jim Taylor Jersey OPS and seven home runs against them.MORE: He had a moment against a left-hander earlier Friday, however. Pujols launched home run No. 699 in the third inning, sending a fastball from Dodgers starter Andrew Heaney 434 feet halfway Randy Ramsey Jersey up the left-field stands.He then greeted the right-handed Bickford, who came on for Heaney, with No. 700 in his next at-bat in the fourth inning.MORE:This was Pujols' fourth multi-home run game in 2022 and the 65th of his career. The game was streamed exclusively on Apple TV+, meaning that the Cardinals' local broadcast team was limited to calling it on radio. John Rooney, Rick Horton and Dan McLaughlin described the homer and the scene Rasul Douglas Jersey inside the ballpark on network flagship KMOX.