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Slugger 23rd active player to reach 1,000 RBIs

Albert Pujols hit a home run so majestic it deserved two milestones.

Pujols' mammoth grand slam in the seventh inning on Saturday gave him 1,002 career RBIs. That makes him the 23rd active player to pass 1,000 Major League RBIs, but it also moves him past Ken Boyer into fifth place on the Cardinals' career list.

After Colby Rasmus walked to load the bases in a game the Cardinals led, 3-1, Pujols jumped on the first pitch from right-hander David Patton. He obliterated a 95-mph fastball, taking it high into the bleachers behind the visitors' bullpen in left field at Busch Stadium. The official distance of the home run was 441 feet, and it landed just shy of the walkway that runs behind the left-field bleachers.

Pujols is the second player to reach 1,000 career RBIs this season, following the Mets' Carlos Beltran. The Cardinals slugger trails only four Hall of Famers on the Redbirds' franchise RBI list: Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, Jim Bottomley and Rogers Hornsby.

The grand slam was the eighth of Pujols' Major League career and his second this season.