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Baseball Musings
August 29, 2005
19 for Carpenter

The St. Louis Cardinals score sxi runs again as they take down the Florida Marlins 6-1. Chris Carpenter goes 7 2/3 innings and is charged with the run. His ERA is now 2.29.

One thing in Carpenter's favor for the Cy Young award is that he's pitched 21 innings more than Clemens. In an age when lots of pitchers are only going between 200 and 220 innings, Carpenter may end up around 240 by the end of the season. Right now, I don't think it's enough to give him the award, but there's a month to go.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:28 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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It is very hard to deny Carpenter at this point in the season. Willis has a lot of wins, and some of them are impressive outings, but many of his losses have also been blowouts. The Marlins had no chance to win those games. Of Carpenter's 4 losses, 2 of them were 1-run decisions. The Cardinals were very much in those games, even when he lost.
At least 9 of Carpenter's wins have followed Cardinal losses, meaning he has helped them avoid losing streaks.
Clemens has had some poor support and bad luck, but he just doesn't have the wins compared to Carpenter.

Posted by: George S at August 30, 2005 12:28 AM
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