ESPN TV executives probably weren’t overly enthused about the Cardinals turning their Sunday Night Baseball matchup against the Giants into a laugher. St. Louis boat raced the visiting Giants in primetime. The game appeared to have lost all intrigue, but then, future Hall-of-Famer and one time Dodger, Albert Pujols took the mound with a 15-2 lead.
Yes, you read that correctly. Tío Albert pitched the ninth inning for the Cardinals.
In his MLB pitching debut at 42-year-young, Pujols yielded four earned runs on three hits to “seal” a 15-6 win for St.