Albert Pujols connects on one of the record-tying three blasts he hit in the Cardinals 16-7 win in Game Three over the Rangers. (AP)

Last night’s Game Three was not all about Albert, though it seems that way now. Five hits, six RBIs and a quarter-mile’s worth of home runs certainly opens and shuts the case for Pujols as the player of the game, and the series, and the universe of ever ever, but before his three-homer outburst beginning in the sixth inning on, his Cardinals were actually embroiled in what was shaping up to be a pretty decent, perhaps even memorable, World Series contest with the Texas Rangers.

At the center of the controversial-turned-historic action were a couple of former Los Angeles Angels, Mike Napoli and Darren Oliver. Napoli in particular found himself involved in three key plays in the fourth inning alone, though they are now forgotten due to Pujols’s own three-way barrage.

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