Pujols

ST. LOUIS -- Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals drove in three runs in his first two at-bats Wednesday, setting an NL rookie record with 120 RBI.

Pujols broke the mark of 119, by Wally Berger of the Boston Braves in 1930.

The 21-year-old Pujols had a run-scoring groundout in the first and a two-run double in the third off Jeff D'Amico of the Milwaukee Brewers, giving him nine RBIs in the three-game series.

Pujols has at least one RBI in 11 of his last 15 games.

He became only the fourth Cardinals rookie to score 100 runs when he came around on Craig Paquette's single in the third. The last was Vince Coleman with 107 runs in 1985; and John Heidrick holds the team rookie record of 109 runs in 1899.

On Tuesday, Pujols drove in a career-best five runs and established team rookie records for RBI and doubles. He's hit 43 doubles this season.

With 334 total bases, Pujols was 18 shy of Dick Allen's NL rookie record, set in 1964 for the Phillies.