Through the 2011 regular season, Albert Pujols has 445 career home runs, making him 37th on the all-time list. Stan Musial is the all-time home run leader for the St. Louis Cardinals with 475.
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He has had five career three-homer games. The most recent one was on October 22, 2011, when he hit three in Game 3 of the World Series at Arlington, Texas. The St. Louis Cardinals first baseman hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning, a two-run shot in the seventh and a solo dinger in the ninth to pace the Cards to a 16-7 victory over the Texas Rangers. Pujols also joined Babe Ruth and Reggie Jackson as the only players to have three-homer games in World Series competition. Ruth hit three homers in a Series game twice.
Fifteen players have hit four home runs in a game, and the last person to do it was Carlos Delgado, then with the Toronto Blue Jays, on Sept. 25, 2003. Like Pujols, Delgado happens to be one of five players who have hit three homers in a game five times. The others: Dave Kingman, Joe Carter and Mark McGwire.
Two players -- Johnny Mize and Sammy Sosa -- pulled off the feat six times, and Sosa did it three times in 46 days (on August 9, August 22 and September 23 in 2001).
Albert Pujols hit 42 home runs in 2010. With this number, Pujols hit the second most home runs in the entire MLB behind Jose Bautista's 54.
Albert Pujols hit 47 home runs during the 2009 season.
In 2010, Albert Pujols hit the most home runs in the National League, with 42.
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Through the 2011 regular season, Albert Pujols has 445 career home runs, making him 37th on the all-time list. Stan Musial is the all-time home run leader for the St. Louis Cardinals with 475.
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