It seems that Albert Pujols does everything with flair. Not only did he tie Todd Helton for the second quickest player to 1,000 hits, he did it by hitting his MLB leading 11th home run of the season. Yeah, he’s pretty good. Pujols’ first inning homer staked the Cards to a two run lead and set the stage for what quickly became a trouncing. In the second, four different Cardinals combined to drive in 5 runs as Pujols drove in his third and fourth run of the game and MLB leading 24th of the season. Did I mention he’s good? The seven run lead was good enough for Mulder as he coasted to his way to his second win of the season. As if that weren’t good enough, the win came against the Cubs who had seemed to have the Cardinals’ number recently, continuing the troubling trend from last year. Here’s to hoping that’s all behind us now.

Other notes from the game…

So the Brit went to the game tonight, much to my dismay. I asked him for his take on tonight’s game. Here’s what he said (cut him some slack, he’s British and you shouldn’t expect too much).

Albert’s a machine this year. I mean everyone in the place felt he was going to hit it out every time he stepped to the plate.

Mulder was interesting. He’s basically throwing junk. 86MPH fastball and a 65MPH knuckle curve by the looks of things.
But… the differential in speed is causing hitters nightmares.

The HR [Mulder gave up] was an overthrown 89MPH fastball that he left up in the zone… not a good thing to do to Michael Barrett. [You taking notes Izzy?]

It’s early but we look a much better ballclub with J-Rod batting in the 2 slot and Juan Encarnacion in the 6 slot [or maybe on the bench? Just a suggestion].

Well Brit, I’m crazy jealous that you were there but if your gonna rub it in, thanks for at least giving us your take on things.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 21st, 2006 at 11:26 pm and is filed under Cardinals, Cards/Cubs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

It seems that Albert Pujols does everything with flair. Not only did he tie Todd Helton for the second quickest player to 1,000 hits, he did it by hitting his MLB leading 11th home run of the season. Yeah, he’s pretty good. Pujols’ first inning homer staked the Cards to a two run lead and set the stage for what quickly became a trouncing. In the second, four different Cardinals combined to drive in 5 runs as Pujols drove in his third and fourth run of the game and MLB leading 24th of the season. Did I mention he’s good? The seven run lead was good enough for Mulder as he coasted to his way to his second win of the season. As if that weren’t good enough, the win came against the Cubs who had seemed to have the Cardinals’ number recently, continuing the troubling trend from last year. Here’s to hoping that’s all behind us now.

Other notes from the game…

So the Brit went to the game tonight, much to my dismay. I asked him for his take on tonight’s game. Here’s what he said (cut him some slack, he’s British and you shouldn’t expect too much).

Albert’s a machine this year. I mean everyone in the place felt he was going to hit it out every time he stepped to the plate.

Mulder was interesting. He’s basically throwing junk. 86MPH fastball and a 65MPH knuckle curve by the looks of things.
But… the differential in speed is causing hitters nightmares.

The HR [Mulder gave up] was an overthrown 89MPH fastball that he left up in the zone… not a good thing to do to Michael Barrett. [You taking notes Izzy?]

It’s early but we look a much better ballclub with J-Rod batting in the 2 slot and Juan Encarnacion in the 6 slot [or maybe on the bench? Just a suggestion].

Well Brit, I’m crazy jealous that you were there but if your gonna rub it in, thanks for at least giving us your take on things.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 21st, 2006 at 11:26 pm and is filed under Cardinals, Cards/Cubs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.