[外電] Pujols named NL Player of the Week
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07/16/2007 6:20 PM ET
Pujols named NL Player of the Week
Cardinals slugger homered in three straight games
By C.J. Moore / MLB.com
Albert Pujols broke a career-long homerless streak Friday in Philadelphia.
Then Pujols turned the three-game series at Citizens Bank Park into his own
home run derby.
Pujols hit home runs in three straight games, including two Sunday in the
Cardinals' 10-2 victory. Monday, he was rewarded as the Bank of America
National League Player of the Week for July 9-15.
The six-time NL All-Star led the National League with 19 total bases for the
week, went 6-for-14, scored five runs and had five RBIs over the weekend in
Philadelphia. His two homers Sunday gave him 20 on the season, which made him
the 21st player in Major League history to hit 20 homers in each of his first
seven seasons.
After 22 games and 77 at-bats without a home run, the 27-year-old first
baseman broke his career-long drought with a 471-foot shot in the eighth
inning Friday.
"You guys in the media made a big deal of it," Pujols said of his homerless
streak. "I didn't make a big deal. I made a big deal, because we weren't
winning. I do what I have to do to help my team win."
The Cardinals only won one game in Philadelphia, but Pujols started the
second half blazing hot after a slow start to the season -- at least by
Pujols' lofty standards. He leads the Cardinals in batting average (.320),
hits (55), runs (102), RBIs (57), doubles (17), total bases (179), on-base
percentage (.412) and home runs. However, he had career-low numbers for the
first half in runs, homers, RBIs and slugging percentage.
"I've been seeing the ball well the last two months," he said. "That's all I
can do. As long as I do that, I can't control the rest."
Pujols started the week in the news because of his frustrations of not
playing in the All-Star Game, and he voiced his frustrations after the game
about not getting a chance to pinch-hit for the Phillies outfielder Aaron
Rowand with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Pujols said after the game if he wasn't expecting to play, he wouldn't have
come to the game. However, he downplayed the significance of the situation
when he returned to St. Louis on Wednesday.
"Was I disappointed I didn't get in the game? Of course," he said. "I'm a
competitor. I want to help the National League win. Does that make it a big
deal? No. It wasn't a big deal to me. I guess it was a big deal to everyone
else in the country."
If he did have any frustrations, he took it out on Rowand's team, the
Phillies, and he ended the week just where he started -- in the news.
C.J. Moore is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject
to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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