ST. LOUIS — The easy narrative is that Albert Pujols had his first three-hit game and first homer as a Cardinal since September 2011. But there was so much more going on at Busch Stadium Tuesday night in the Cardinals’ 6-5 interleague victory over the Kansas City Royals before an impressive April weeknight paid crowd of 40,398.
The Cardinals’ Nolan Arenado, just named Player of the Week for his exploits during the first few days of the season, got a jump on Week 2 with a two-run homer off Kansas City left-hander Daniel Lynch in the first inning.
Arenado’s third homer of the season was his sixth extra-base hit out of seven over his first four games. And he has driven in at least two runs in each of those games.
