“This is it boys,” Molina told his teammates.
“Next pitch — whang!” Yepez recalled Saturday.
In the moments it took Pujols to become only the fourth player in Major League Baseball history to circle the bases for a 700th time, his teammates made sure to soak in the scene along with him. Brendan Donovan, on base when Pujols’ struck for his second homer, waited by home for a hug eventually got. Nolan Arenado agreed that it felt like being a boy again and watching his favorite player growing up hit a homer, though he had a better view.