With all the talks of steroids and records with asterisks next to numbers and names, fans of the game have looked for a hero, a guy to save the integrity and the game of baseball. The man: Albert Pujols. He is what Batman is to Gotham City, what Obama was to America (just kidding). But seriously, Pujols has not just saved the St. Louis Cardinals, he has saved baseball from becoming a game of who can inject the most and hit it the furthest. After game 2 of the World Series, Pujols was hitting a measly .220 for the series and in the top of 9th committed a play that could be argued to have cost his team the game. However, like any professional should do, Pujols stayed out of the media spotlight that night and avoided the media. The bloodhounds that the media is would've tried and tried to bring this man down after committing that error. Pujols used the travel day to Texas as a time to regroup and did what any professional would do. Game 3 comes along and the man goes 5-6 with 3 dingers. There's not one player in the league that would have been mentally tough enough to do such a thing. Costs his team the game and then comes back and drives his team to a 16-run onslaught. Pujols is the face of Major League Baseball. No steroids, stays out of the spotlight, doesn't create alter-egos and goes and plays the game hard. King Albert indeed.
PS: Joe Buck makes great calls on these home runs. Best announcer of all time.
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