Revitalized with Dodgers, Albert Pujols faces his beloved Cardinals in do-or-die NL wild card game

LOS ANGELES — They will be celebrating Albert Pujols one day alongside Musial and Gibson and Brock and all of the St. Louis Cardinals’ greats one day.

They will be retiring his uniform No. 5, which hasn’t been worn since he last played for them 10 years ago.

The Cardinals fansbase will be in Cooperstown when he’s inducted into the Hall of Fame, proudly wearing that Cardinals’ cap.

But for one night, and one night only, Pujols is the enemy in St. Louis.

Pujols is representing the Los Angeles Dodgers these days, a team that would love to ruin the Cardinals’ miracle comeback by extinguishing them in Wednesday’s wild-card game (8:08 p.m., ET, TBS) at Dodger Stadium.

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