Through two innings, Carpenter has faced 10 batters, but thrown only 24 pitches.

Since he struck out two, that means the other 8 batters saw no more than 18 pitches.

No wonder he has 6 complete games -- every must swing at one of his three pitches.

every must swing at one of his three pitches.

How Robbie Cano of them.

Clemens out...Strained right hammy.

Gudby to Cy

it's over now, only cy candidates have the name pettite or willis on their jersey....

Clemens certainly took a down-turn in September, at least in terms of stats... if not in terms of his team supporting him and/or doing well in general.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean he started getting mad run support (I can only dream of a season in which the Astros giving him 14-1 wins is the NORM, not the insane dream-like exception to the rule)... but it was sooooo much better than the consistently-awful support from the early portion of the season.

Still, he had some... tough-to-explain starts. And his quality start %, if you care about such things, dropped precipitously.