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Cards' pitching coach Duncan one of first to spot Pujols' potential impact

There were the three home runs at Texas in Game 3 of the 2011 World Series. There were the three homers in Wrigley Field to spark a dramatic comeback win in 2004. Three more homers in a game, capped by a walk-off against Cincinnati here in 2006.

And the ninth-inning, game-winning home run in Game 5 of the 2005 National League championship series in Houston that nearly knocked the engineer out of his cab as he piloted his train well above the left field wall in Houston’s Minute Maid Park. And, of course, the home run before his once adoring fans in St.