Dominican-born Albert Pujols joined the exclusive club of Major League Baseball players to have 3,000 or more hits. The feat was reached on Friday, 4 May 2018 in Seattle, Washington state. The landmark hit was a single to the right field in the fifth inning against the Seattle Mariners’ pitcher Mike Leake. Playing for the Los Angeles Angels, Pujols would latter add a two-run single in the ninth for his 3,001th hit. His team won 5-0.
“It was going to happen, it was just a matter of when,” Pujols said. “I just thank the Lord that it happened tonight in front of my family, my friends. Now we just stay focused on the things that I want to do, which is help this ball club to win. We don’t have to talk too much about 3,000 now.”
MLB reports that Pujols, 38, becomes now the 32nd player to reach 3,000 and only the second after Adrian Beltré. With 620 homers, Pujols is only the fourth player to collect 3,000 hits and 600 home runs, joining Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Alex Rodríguez.
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7 May 2018
