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    Rejuvenated Albert Pujols brings his chase for 700 home runs to Dodger Stadium

    by Mike DiGiovanna, Los Angeles Times Sep 23, 2022 7 minutes
    Albert Pujols #5 of the St. Louis Cardinals reacts after hitting a two-run home run against the Cincinnati Reds in the sixth inning at Busch Stadium on September 16, 2022, in St Louis, Missouri.

    SAN DIEGO — When the bat of Albert Pujols caught fire in early August, and it appeared the St. Louis Cardinals slugger would make an improbable 11th-hour run to 700 homers, Mark McGwire began tracking his long-ago teammate through the MLB app and tuning into as many Pujols plate appearances as he could.

    "His at-bats, he looks like he's 25 again," McGwire said of the 42-year-old Pujols, who was a Cardinals rookie when McGwire hit the last of his 583 career homers in a St. Louis uniform in 2001. "This guy is a born hitter."

    But it wasn't until McGwire returned to Busch Stadium for Matt Holliday's Cardinals Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Aug. 27 that he truly grasped — literally, not figuratively — how Pujols, in his 22nd and final big league season, has recaptured the thunder in his swing.

    "When I saw Albert, I gave him a hug, and it's like, you know when you hug someone, and you just go, 'Oh man, I don't want to mess with that guy?' " McGwire said in a phone interview. "When you hug

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