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With His 700th Homer, Albert Pujols Gives Us One Last Surprise

A farewell tour turned into a showcase for Pujols, the veteran Cardinals slugger, as he joined the most exclusive of home run clubs long after many had written him off.

Albert Pujols hit his 699th and 700th career home runs in the third and fourth innings of Friday’s game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers.Credit...Gary A. Vasquez/USA Today Sports, via Reuters

It was June 2001, the first half of the first season of a career nobody saw coming. Albert Pujols was back in Kansas City, Mo.