At this point, the only way to explain it is to concede it’s inexplicable.
Yes, Albert Pujols still trains very hard and practices and prepares and all that stuff. But this is mind-blowingly beyond. Forty-two-year-old Pujols, drafted before some 2022 teammates were born, hit two homers Sunday in the Cardinals’ most important game of the season.
The first Busch Stadium blast went to Big Mac Land. The second homer, with the Cardinals up 3-2 in an airtight bottom of the eighth, felt like a walk-off. The three-run shot essentially won the game against the Brewers — and thus won the series against the Brewers — who leave St.