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ALBERT PUJOLS CAREER HOME REVIEW has joined an elite group as he became the 9 th player in Major League history to 600 home runs. Following is a look at Pujols’ career highlights (PLEASE NOTE ALL INFORMATION WAS LAST UPDATED FOLLOWING HIS 600 th HOME RUN ON JUNE 3 rd ).

600 HOME RUNS  Joins (762 HR), (755 HR), (714 HR), ALL-TIME HR LIST (696 HR), (660 HR), Ken Griffey Jr. (630 HR), PLAYER HR (612 HR) and (609 HR) as the only players in the 1. BARRY BONDS 762 to hit 600 home runs. 2. HANK AARON 755  Becomes just the fifth right-handed batter in the 600 home run club, 3. BABE RUTH 714 joining Aaron, Rodriguez, Mays and Sosa. 4. ALEX RODRIGUEZ 696 5. WILLIE MAYS 660 Becomes the fourth-youngest player all-time to reach the 600 home run  6. KEN GRIFFEY 630 milestone (see chart to right). 7. JIM THOME 612  Joins Sammy Sosa as the only players born outside the to 8. SAMMY SOSA 609 reach the 600-home run plateau. 9. ALBERT PUJOLS 600

 Becomes the third player to ever amass 600 home runs and 600 doubles in a career: Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds.  Is first player all-time to hit a for 600 th home run (no player had previously hit a grand slam for 500 th , 600 th or 700 th career home run).

MACHINERY  Only player in MLB history to hit 30-or-more HRs in each of his first 12 YOUNGEST PLAYERS TO HIT 600 HR (ELIAS) seasons…First player in MLB history to reach 400 HRs in first 10 seasons. PLAYER AGE (YRS-DAYS)  Youngest player ever to reach 250 career HRs (26 years, 258 day s)… ALEX RODRIGUEZ 35-008 Majors’ fastest player (806 games) to both 1,000 hits & 200 HRs, passing BABE RUTH 36-196 Willie Mays’ mark of 825 games. HANK AARON 37-081  Has homered off 386 in 37 ballparks. ALBERT PUJOLS 37-138 BARRY BONDS 38-016  First player in Major League history to hit career home runs #499 and #500 in the same game.

POSTSEASON  Has launched 19 career home runs in the postseason (five in Division THREE-HR WORLD GAMES Series, 10 in Championship Series & four in ). PLAYER GAME/DATE  19 career postseason home runs rank 2nd most amongst 500 HR club BABE RUTH GM 4, 1926 members …19 career postseason HR are good for 4th most in MLB history BABE RUTH GM 4, 1928  Set a then-Cardinals postseason franchise record with six home GM 6, 1977 ALBERT PUJOLS GM 3, 2011 runs in 2004. GM 1, 2012  In 2005 playoffs, belted game-winning, three-run home run with two outs in ninth of NLCS Game 5 at off to send series to Game 6 (over railroad tracks above left field wall; estimated at approximately 455 feet).  Belted three home runs in Game 3 of the against the , becoming then just the third player in MLB history to have hit three home runs in a single World Series game.

HOME RUN DERBIES BIG BANG – MEMORABLE PUJOLS HRs DATE HOME RUN  Competed in 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2015 Home Run Derbies…Best 8/14/11 465 FT. HR, LONGEST HR EVER showing came as the runner-up to in 2003 contest at AT BUSCH III

U.S. Cellular Field in . 5/21/09 KNOCKED “I” OF BIG  Has hit 71 career home runs in four efforts, good for MAC LAND SIGN IN LEFT FIELD AT BUSCH

fourth-most in Home Run Derby history. 9/10/06 459 FT BLAST AT

 Belted 26 HR in 2003 derby, tied-9th most long balls in a single HR Derby. 4/16/06 455 FT BLAST AT , PREVIOUSLY MISCELLANEOUS HOME RUN NOTES LONGEST HR IN HISTORY OF BUSCH III

 Has hit 12 career walk-off home runs…On June 4 & 5, 2011 vs. CHC, hit walk-off home runs in back-to-back extra inning games becoming the third MLB player since at least 1950 to hit consecutive extra-inning walk-off home runs.  Has launched 15 home runs in extra .  Has homered in the first inning (137 HR, most all-time) nearly the amount of times he has homered in any other inning.

Pujols’ Milestone Home rs Career # # Date Team OPP Inn Out RoB Pit(cnt) RBI

1 1 4/6/2001 STL @ ARI t 4 1 1-- 4,(1-2) 2

100 29 7/20/2003 STL @ LAD Odalis Perez t 4 2 1-- 5,(2-2) 2

200 40 9/30/2005 STL CIN Matt Belisle b 7 2 123 1,(0-0) 4

300 18 7/4/2008 STL CHC b 8 2 --- 6,(2-2) 1

400 34 8/26/2010 STL @ WSN t 4 0 --- 2,(0-1) 1

500 8 4/22/2014 LAA @ WSN t 5 0 1-- 4,(1-2) 2 600 9 6/3/2017 LAA MIN b 4 2 123 4, (1-2) 4

BALLPARKS OPPOSING TEAMS FREQUENT VICTIMS PUJOLS HAS HOMERED IN 37 DIFFERENT PUJOLS HAS HOMERED A GAINST ALL 30 PUJOLS HAS HOMERED OFF 386 PARKS IN HIS CAREER MLB TEAMS DIFFERENT PITCHERS IN HIS STADIUM # OF HRS CAREER…HERE’S A LOOK AT HIS MOST TEAM # OF HRS NEW BUSCH STADIUM 110 FREQUENT VICTIMS 56 94 HOUSON ASTROS 55 OPPOSING PITCHER # OF HRS 78 50 8 PNC PARK 30 47 WADE MILLER 6 29 42 AARON HARANG 5 28 EXPOS/NATIONALS 24 5 20 22 5 MILLER PARK 19 22 5 KAUFFMAN STADIUM 15 21 ODALIS PEREZ 5 14 21 5 GLOBE LIFE PARK 13 20 5 SAFECO FIELD 12 20 4 11 18 4 10 DODGERS 18 BRONSON ARROYO 4 CHASE FIELD 9 TEXAS RANGERS 18 DAVID WEATHERS 4 9 17 4 9 SAN FRANSISCO GIANTS 16 4 9 MARLINS 15 4 8 13 4 8 PHILLIES 13 4 SUN LIFE STADIUM 8 11 4 7 12 4 AT&T PARK 7 RED SOX 10 4 5 8 4 7 CINERGY FIELD 4 7 4 7 CAMDEN YARDS 3 5 3 4 TARGET FIELD 3 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 1 CITI FIELD 3 NEW 3 QUALCOMM STADIUM 3 ROGERS CENTERE 3 OLYMPIC STADIUM 2 RFK STADIUM 2 YANKEE STADIUM 1

PUJOLS HR SPLITS

TEAM HRS HRS ORDER POSITION HRS DEF. POSITION HRS ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 445 1-1 85 THIRD 487 1B 430 LOS ANGELES ANGELS 155 1-0 81 FOURTH 97 DH 74 0-0 77 FIFTH 8 LF 64 VS. LHP/RHP HRS 0-1 69 SIXTH 6 3B 24 RHP 446 2-2 59 SEVENTH 1 RF 6 LHP 154 1-2 53 EIGHTH 1 PH 2 3-2 52 HOME/ROAD HRS 2-1 38 OUTS HRS INNING HRS ROAD 318 2-0 29 1 215 FIRST 137 HOME 282 0-2 27 2 195 SECOND 24 3-1 23 0 190 THIRD 58 LOCATION HRS 3-0 7 FOURTH 68 LEFT 295 GAME TOTALS # OF GMS FIFTH 78 LEFT-CENTER 139 PITCHES HRS 1-HR GAMES 486 SIXTH 66 CENTER 91 2 150 2-HR GAMES 51 SEVENTH 59 RIGHT-CENTER 33 3 138 3-HR GAMES 4 EIGHTH 61 RIGHT 42 4 80 NINTH 34 1 77 RUNNERS ON HRS EXTRAS 15 MONTH HRS 5 77 --- 327 MARCH/APRIL 103 6 40 1-- 120 MAY 110 7 24 -2- 54 JUNE 99 8 7 12- 51 JULY 97 9 5 1-3 14 AUGUST 112 10+ 2 123 14 SEPT/OCT 79 --3 11 -23 9