Some solid pitching performances today

Chris Carpenter continues to prove his is the ace of the cardinals staff (who said he wasn't an ace?) 12 wins now on the season.. Smoltz wins again in good fashion. Livan Hernandez...11th straight win for Nats! CC Sabathia, 3hitter...Bonderman shuts down the Yanks. I expect Peavy will throw a solid game tonight..

Some guy named Prior that everyone likes to talk about didn't even make it 6 innings!!arty:

"Carpenter is just unbelievable," Pujols said. "I talked to some guys coming down to first base and they were telling me 'This guy is so nasty.' When you hear guys on the other side saying that, he has something good going."

"He just did it all," the Rockies' Garrett Atkins said of Carpenter. "We knew we were going to be in for a tough night."

Carpenter (12-4) joined Dontrelle Willis of the Marlins, Livan Hernandez of the Nationals and Jon Garland of the White Sox at 12 wins -- three shy of his season total last year. He had nine strikeouts, leaving him two behind league-leading Pedro Martinez, and two walks. Atkins said he'd pick Carpenter to start the All-Star Game.

"Definitely, I've felt the least comfortable against him so far," Atkins said.

Carpenter was 4-1 with an 0.90 ERA in June and has allowed only one run in 33 2/3 innings in his last four starts, including two shutouts, to lower his ERA to 2.60.

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Royal...maybe if you were allowed to stay up past midnight you would've caught it...Posted damn near 2 am when nobody is on here...but i know kids like you are in bed by then!!

Tball game starts in 5 minutes for Royal...all at the RX are welcome to go watch him!!

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