Chris Carpenter, our ace, got the start tonight, the win, and the complete game. Carpenter was amazing, everything was dead on. According to catcher Yadier Molina after the game in an interview on FSN- Carpenter's fastball was the pitch that was the best. Yadier Molina was hitless again, but his defense alone keeps him in the lineup. Manager Tony LaRussa has said many times that Molina could have a .000 batting average and he would stay in the lineup b/c of his defense. Molina has a cannon for an arm and has thrown out 44% of runners who have attempted to steal (that's the hightest %age in the league!!). With Giants catcher (former Cards catcher) Mike Mattheny out for the rest of the year due to concussion syndrome, Molina seems to be a likely canidate for gold glove. I think he deserves it, he has been outstanding and the guy is tough as nails, he took a head on collision a season or two ago that was scary...his mask and hat flew off and he was knocked to the ground but he held on to the ball to get the out at homeplate...he remained in the game too! Okay back to tonights game.... Preston Wilson homered and scored two runs. Carpenter got his 3rd complete game of the season and number 23 total career. Carpenter has a 13-6 record, and is one game shy of leading the league. He is in the running for the Cy Young Award again. He deserves it, the guy is flat out amazing. He spent his first year w/ the Red Birds on the bench (all season), the next season he comes back from Tommy John surgery and gets 20 wins and wins the coveted Cy Young Award. According to the St. Louis Cardinals website, Carpenter has issued only one walk since the beginning of August! Now that's impressive. Click here for the full story and more details. I was cleaning while I was watching the game. I missed some of the game, but I did see Wilson's HR-that was cool. The Birds on the Bat now have a 5 game lead over the Cincinnati Red's who have been having a rough road trip (yay for us). Those annoying and pesky Astros are 7 games back, so they are still a worry...we have to face them 7 more times. Don't count them out until the division champs and wild cards are official. These guys went to the playoffs and the World Series for the first time in a really long time last year and are hungry for another chance at being the World Champs.
As always, Go Cardinals!!!
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I was at the game...it was great! It was so short! (less than two hours)
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