ALBERT PUJOLS CAREER HOME RUN REVIEW Albert Pujols is in en route to joining an elite group as he looks to become the 9 th player in Major League Baseball history to hit 600 home runs. Following is a look at Pujols’ career home run highlights (PLEASE NOTE ALL INFORMATION WAS LAST UPDATED PRIOR TO THE GAME ON MAY 31st ). 600 HOME RUNS Looking to join Barry Bonds (762 HR), Hank Aaron (755 HR), Babe Ruth (714 HR), Alex Rodriguez (696 HR), Willie Mays (660 HR), Ken Griffey Jr. ALL-TIME HR LIST (630 HR), Jim Thome (612 HR) and Sammy Sosa (609 HR) as the only PLAYER HRS 4. ALEX RODRIGUEZ 696 players in the history of baseball to hit 600 home runs. 5. WILLIE MAYS 660 Would become just the fifth right-handed batter in the 600 home run 6. KEN GRIFFEY 630 club, joining Aaron, Rodriguez, Mays and Sosa. 7. JIM THOME 612 If he completes the feat during the 2017 season, will become the fourth- 8. SAMMY SOSA 609 9. ALBERT PUJOLS 599 youngest player all-time to reach the 600 home run milestone (see chart to right). Will join Sammy Sosa as the only players born outside the United States to reach the 600-home run plateau. Can become the third player to ever amass 600 home runs and 600 doubles in a career: Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds. MACHINERY Only player in MLB history to hit 30-or-more HRs in each of his first 12 YOUNGEST PLAYERS TO HIT 600 HR seasons…First player in MLB history to reach 400 HRs in first 10 seasons. (ELIAS) Youngest player ever to reach 250 career HRs (26 years, 258 day s)… PLAYER AGE (YRS-DAYS) Majors’ fastest player (806 games) to both 1,000 hits & 200 HRs, passing ALEX RODRIGUEZ 35-008 Willie Mays’ mark of 825 games. BABE RUTH 36-196 Has homered off 386 pitchers in 37 ballparks. HANK AARON 37-081 ALBERT PUJOLS 37-135 First player in Major League history to hit career home runs #499 and BARRY BONDS 38-016 #500 in the same game. POSTSEASON Has launched 19 career home runs in the postseason (five in Division THREE-HR WORLD SERIES GAMES Series, 10 in Championship Series & four in World Series). PLAYER GAME/DATE 19 career postseason home runs rank 2nd most amongst 500 HR club BABE RUTH GM 4, 1926 members …19 career postseason home runs are good for 4th most in MLB BABE RUTH GM 4, 1928 history. REGGIE JACKSON GM 6, 1977 Set a then-Cardinals single postseason franchise record with six home ALBERT PUJOLS GM 3, 2011 PABLO SANDOVAL GM 1, 2012 runs in 2004. In 2005 playoffs, belted game-winning, three-run home run with two outs in ninth inning of NLCS Game 5 at Houston off Brad Lidge 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 2011 World Series against the Texas Rangers, becoming then just the third player in MLB history to have hit three home runs in a single World Series game. BIG BANG – MEMORABLE PUJOLS HRs DATE HOME RUN HOME RUN DERBIES 8/14/11 465 FT. HR, LONGEST HR EVER AT BUSCH STADIUM III Competed in 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2015 Home Run Derbies…Best 5/21/09 KNOCKED “I” OUT OF B IG showing came as the runner-up to Garret Anderson in 2003 contest at MAC LAND SIGN IN LEFT U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago. FIELD AT BUSCH Has hit 71 career home runs in four Home Run Derby efforts, good for 9/10/06 459 FT BLAST AT CHASE FIELD fourth-most in Home Run Derby history. 4/16/06 455 FT BLAST AT BUSCH STADIUM, PREVIOUSLY Belted 26 homers in 2003 derby, tied-9th most long balls in a single HR LONGEST HR IN HISTORY OF Derby. BUSCH III WALKOFFS, 3-HR GAMES, GRAND SLAMS, PINCH-HIT HOME RUNS 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 innings. Has homered in the first inning (137 HR, most all-time) nearly double the amount of times he has homered in any other inning. Pujols’ Milestone Home rs Career # Season # Date Team OPP Pitcher Inn Out RoB Pit(cnt) RBI Notes 1 1 4/6/2001 STL @ ARI Armando Reynoso 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 Bob Howry b 8 2 --- 6,(2-2) 1 400 34 8/26/2010 STL @ WSN Jordan Zimmermann t 4 0 --- 2,(0-1) 1 500 8 4/22/2014 LAA @ WSN Taylor Jordan t 5 0 1-- 4,(1-2) 2 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 CHICAGO CUBS 56 BUSCH MEMORIAL STADIUM 94 HOUSON ASTROS 55 OPPOSING PITCHER # OF HRS ANGEL STADIUM 77 PITTSBURGH PIRATES 50 RYAN DEMPSTER 8 PNC PARK 30 CINCINNATI REDS 47 WADE MILLER 6 MINUTE MAID PARK 29 MILWAUKEE BREWERS 42 AARON HARANG 5 WRIGLEY FIELD 28 EXPOS/NATIONALS 24 CARLOS ZAMBRANO 5 GREAT AMERICAN BALL PARK 20 KANSAS CITY ROYALS 22 CHRIS CAOUANO 5 MILLER PARK 19 NEW YORK METS 22 IAN SNELL 5 KAUFFMAN STADIUM 15 ATLANTA BRAVES 21 ODALIS PEREZ 5 TURNER FIELD 14 COLORADO ROCKIES 21 RANDY JOHNSON 5 GLOBE LIFE PARK 13 SAN DIEGO PADRES 20 ROY OSWALT 5 SAFECO FIELD 12 SEATTLE MARINERS 20 BEN SHEETS 4 COORS FIELD 11 ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS 18 BRETT MYERS 4 CITIZENS BANK PARK 10 LOS ANGELES DODGERS 18 BRONSON ARROYO 4 CHASE FIELD 9 TEXAS RANGERS 18 DAVID WEATHERS 4 DODGER STADIUM 9 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 17 DEREK HOLLAND 4 SHEA STADIUM 9 SAN FRANSISCO GIANTS 16 KIP WELLS 4 NATIONALS PARK 9 MIAMI MARLINS 15 KRIS BENSON 4 COMERICA PARK 8 DETROIT TIGERS 13 KYLE FARNSWORTH 4 OAKLAND COLISEUM 8 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 13 PEDRO ASTACIO 4 SUN LIFE STADIUM 8 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 11 TIM HUDSON 4 PETCO PARK 7 TAMPA BAY RAYS 12 YOVANI GALLARDO 4 AT&T PARK 7 BOSTON RED SOX 10 ZACH DUKE 4 PROGRESSIVE FIELD 5 NEW YORK YANKEES 8 FENWAY PARK 4 CLEVELAND INDIANS 7 CINERGY FIELD 4 TORONTO BLUE JAYS 7 TROPICANA FIELD 4 MINNESOTA TWINS 6 CAMDEN YARDS 3 BALTIMORE ORIOLES 5 GUARANTEED RATE FIELD 3 LOS ANGELES ANGELS 4 TARGET FIELD 3 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 1 CITI FIELD 3 NEW YANKEE STADIUM 3 QUALCOMM STADIUM 3 ROGERS CENTERE 3 OLYMPIC STADIUM 2 RFK STADIUM 2 YANKEE STADIUM 1 PUJOLS HR SPLITS TEAM HRS COUNT HRS ORDER POSITION HRS DEF. POSITION HRS ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 445 1-1 85 THIRD 486 1B 430 LOS ANGELES ANGELS 154 1-0 81 FOURTH 97 DH 73 0-0 77 FIFTH 8 LF 64 VS. LHP/RHP HRS 0-1 69 SIXTH 6 3B 24 RHP 445 2-2 59 SEVENTH 1 RF 6 LHP 154 1-2 52 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 281 0-2 27 2 194 SECOND 24 3-1 23 0 190 THIRD 58 LOCATION HRS 3-0 7 FOURTH 67 LEFT 294 GAME TOTALS # OF GMS FIFTH 78 LEFT-CENTER 139 PITCHES HRS 1-HR GAMES 485 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 79 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 98 8 7 12- 51 JULY 97 9 5 1-3 14 AUGUST 112 10+ 2 123 13 SEPT/OCT 79 --3 11 -23 9 .