Carpenter wins 20th game...

[CNY Tim]

Quietly Chris Carpenter has put together one heck of a Cy Young campaign. If you ask Chris why he has 20 wins he'll tell you that the offense and defense of his team was better than the other guys on most days. This humble kid from Exeter, NH whom grew up idolizing Roger Clemons who has I think 7 Cy Young awards has a virtual lock on his first CY and along the way tied the great Bob Gibson for most consecutive road wins in a season, 12. Chris has 6 complete games,tops in the majors, 2.28 era, opponents batting of .226. and averages a shade over 8 K's per game..

Cards win 4-2! Magic number is down to 14... The Cards will finish there longest road trip of the season with the final game this afternoon against Houston. There 8-4 on this road trip and will play 15 of there remaining 24 games left at home. The Cards are at a NL best 30-18 since the all-star break.. "That's a Winner!"

[CNY Tim]

Cards take 2 of 3 from Stros to finish off a nice 9-4 road trip. Jason Marquis complete game leads the Cards to a 4-1 win... "That's a winner" Magic number is 12...

Soup's on tomorrow against Prior should be a dandy...

[CNY Tim]

After getting are hats handed to us yet again by losing 2 of 3 to Gene's Cubs, Chris Carpenter pitched 7 strong innings, no runs and 3 hits to lead the Cardinals to a 5-0 win over the reeling NY Mets. Phat Albert jacked two home runs and one of our September AAA call-ups John Gall hit his first ML homerun. Skip Schumaker's foul boul catch into the stands was a nice play. "That's a winner" Magic number is now 10.

[genegodawa]

Tim,

You guys caught us when we were hot/lucky - ended in SF with an 8-2 road trip. Just typical of them to tease me into rooting for them next year again-like I have since '62.