{"id":2651,"date":"2019-05-09T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2020-12-03T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:03:21","slug":"albert-pujols-joins-the-exclusive-2000-rbi-club-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/albert-pujols-joins-the-exclusive-2000-rbi-club-in-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Pujols Joins The Exclusive 2000 RBI Club In Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/category\/american-league-west\/los-angeles-angels\/\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> main slugger Albert Pujols became the 3rd player to reach 2000 Runners Batted In (RBI) in some style as his solo home run in the top of the third inning helped them to a 13-0 win at Detroit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2652\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2652\" class=\"wp-image-2652 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/Albert-Pujols-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Pujols\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/Albert-Pujols-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/Albert-Pujols-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/Albert-Pujols-1024x877.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/Albert-Pujols-750x643.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/Albert-Pujols.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Editorial credit: Keeton Gale \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The home run which was a projected 415 feet blast, according to Statcast was the 639th of his career, leaving him 21 behind the legend Willie Mays for fifth all time. The other two players to reach 2000 RBIs are Hank Aaron who finished with 2,297 and Alex Rodriguez who had 2,086.<\/p>\n<p>At 39 his career is in its twilight, but he has a great chance of adding to his tally and A-Rods total is within sight.<\/p>\n<h2>Albert Pujols Nineteen Seasons At The Top.<\/h2>\n<p>This is Albert Pujols 19th season in the MLB having begun his career with the St Louis Cardinals back in 2001 before moving to the Angels in 2012.\u00a0 Although not as prolific as in his younger days runs wise he is still a top performer and one we always enjoy watching. You can check out his career stats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pujolal01.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Angels main slugger Albert Pujols became the 3rd player to reach 2000 Runners Batted In (RBI) in some style as his solo home run in the top of the third inning helped them to a 13-0 win at Detroit. The home run which was a projected 415 feet blast, according to Statcast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[2717,2715,2716],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-league-west","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-2000-rbi","tag-albert-pujols","tag-la-angels"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}