The Brewers' upcoming two-game series with the St. Louis Cardinals at American Family Field will perhaps be the last that Milwaukee sees one of its all-time nemeses, Albert Pujols. He's looking for his 700th career home run, joining the three luminaries ahead of him on the all-time list (Barry Bonds, Henry Aaron, Babe Ruth) in the rarest of air.
Pujols entered Sept. 23 with 698 on his ledger and three more games before getting to Milwaukee.
Brewers fans naturally would prefer he simply move on and save the achievement for someone else. After all, he already has 45 of them against the Brewers — which, perhaps surprisingly, is the fewest of the other four teams in the National League Central (and well shy of former NL Central colleague Houston, against whom Pujols has a career-best 62 blasts).