Prince Albert Pujols, he reigneth

Like they haven't had enough good stuff happen in L.A. this year.

500 HRs against RHP, 200 HRs against LHP

the other way around surely?

nope!
for most of his career he was an equal-opportunity destroyer of right and left-handed pitching. but more importantly, most pitchers are right-handed so he had a lot more PAs against RHP then against LHP

9600 PAs against RHP
3418 PAs against LHP

He went over to Beltre after hitting the HR, but the other guy (Winfield) appeared on camera a couple of times.

I should say -- (Winfield?)

beltre i recognized, but winfield was driving me nuts because I also recognized him and just could not remember his name

after a 2-run double, pujols is now one RBI behind babe ruth for second place all-time. strangely, baseball reference has babe ruth with 2214 RBIs while fangraphs shows 2217 RBIs? albert has 2213.

he hits a HR, his 702nd, in his final game in St. Louis (three more follow in Pittsburgh), and ties Ruth with 2214 RBIs as well, behind only Hank Aaron.

what a moment

https://i.imgur.com/SVHsany.png

I was thinking the way he’s been hitting, he must’ve been having *some* decent success against right handed pitching, but wow those platoon splits are something else. Albert on the Cards playing at Coors Field 2006 vs Albert on the Angels 2020 basically.

check out the guy at the top falling over with a beer

https://i.imgur.com/By5XARC.png

#703 is in pittsburgh, a 2-run HR that barely cleared the wall in the left-field corner. it puts him ahead of Babe Ruth in RBIs with 2,216, second only to Hank Aaron.

Was surprised at first he didn't join Judge as player of the month, but yeah, Escobar was the better choice.