[外電] Pujols ready to face familiar foe
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04/03/2008 7:37 PM ET
Pujols ready to face familiar foe
St. Louis (2-1) vs. Washington (3-1), Friday, 7:15 p.m. CT
By Matthew Leach / MLB.com
Sometimes a hitter sees a ball well against a pitcher. Sometimes he just
feels comfortable, or is able to pick up a tip from the pitcher's motion. And
once in a long while, a hitter just flat-out owns a pitcher. Dominates him.
That's the case with Albert Pujols and Washington's Friday night starter,
Odalis Perez. Pujols singled in his first two at-bats against Perez, way back
in 2002, and he hasn't looked back. Officially, Pujols is 13-for-20 with five
home runs, two doubles and seven walks against his Dominican countryman.
That's a ridiculous .650 batting average, .741 on-base percentage and 1.500
slugging percentage.
And the official numbers don't even tell the full story, because Pujols has
dominated Perez in the playoffs as well. Counting the 2004 National League
Division Series, Pujols has a 15-for-23 mark (.652) against Perez with six
home runs and eight walks.
It's the kind of line that makes you wonder why Perez ever throws Pujols a
strike.
"Albert is a great hitter and he's going to do that to some guys once in a
while," said Cardinals manager Tony La Russa. "If a guy wants to keep
challenging him, then ..."
Then he's going to get raked.
For his part, Pujols would rather not talk about the topic.
"I don't think about that," he said after a walk-off home run against Perez
in 2006. "It's part of the game. I guess I see the ball real good against him
and I don't try to do too much."
If Pujols is able to do damage against Perez once again, the beneficiary will
be Braden Looper, who finally gets to make his first start of the season.
More than a week after the Cardinals left Florida, Looper has yet to take the
mound in a game that counted.
He pitched in an intrasquad Minor League game on Sunday while his teammates
had their pre-Opening Day workout at Busch Stadium, then made his way north.
Five days before that, Looper also pitched in the Minors, since La Russa
didn't want him facing Washington in an exhibition 10 days before pitching
against the Nats in the season.
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