WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Two days after rejoining the Cardinals for his second stint with the club, Albert Pujols found himself in the starting lineup in a 29-8 rout of the Nationals on Wednesday afternoon.
It felt like old times when the lineup card came out. Pujols was hitting fourth as the designated hitter and he went 1-for-3.
But it was the Cards’ 15-run eighth inning (yes, you read that right) that really overshadowed any other story line.
The record for most runs in one inning in a regular-season game in the Modern Era (since 1900) is 17, a record held by the 1953 Red Sox
St. Louis sent 19 batters to the plate in the eighth inning, where the Cards racked up 10 hits and four free bases (two walks and two hit-by-pitches), and the Nationals didn’t record an out until the eighth batter.