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The Machine is running low on power. Thirteen games and 54 at-bats into his career with the Angels, Albert Pujols has yet to hit his first home run in his new uniform. It is the longest he has gone into a season without hitting his first home run and one of the longer homer-less stretches of a career that has been characterized by remarkable consistency – he averaged a home run every 14.2 at-bats during his 11 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals and is the only player in major-league history to hit at least 30 home runs in each of his first 11 seasons.
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