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ST. LOUIS -- Cliff Shelter methods every start off aiming to go nine innings. The St. Louis Cardinals offered small resistance from the left-hander's second straight shutout.

"There's total gratification," Lee stated. "Every time I would like to throw the whole sport, there's little doubt over it. I think I could possess gone the Tenth and also the 11th, too."

Lee scattered six hits plus the Philadelphia Phillies acquired homers through Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard inside fourth inning of a 4-0 success Wednesday night.

The particular Cardinals have totaled a pair of runs and 13 hits within their initial couple of video games without wounded Albert Pujols, who is expected to miss 6 weeks having a broken left wrist. The idea didn't assist they've faced two of the game's finest, together with Roy Halladay giving up 4 visits in 6 innings Thursday.
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"He's arguably the finest player within the National Little league," Lee said of Pujols. "He's an obvious hazard and anytime he isn't in the lineup you sense better about that when you are the opposing glass pitcher."

Kyle Lohse (7-4) worked 8 innings to match his year best, allowing several runs and several hits with no guides or strikeouts. He struggled only within the next when Rollins led with his seventh homer and Howard hit a two-run picture and his 16th over-all with one out there following a single simply by Chase Utley.

Lohse stated he had to alter his strategy because strikes on the inside corner weren't receiving called. He believed he had Rollins struck out and about a few pitches ahead of giving up the homer.

"I sort of fell behind Howard and he was looking away and I left the actual ball up," Lohse stated. "Other than in which, I felt similar to I was in control. That it was just an unfortunate evening to be going towards Lee."

Utley included an eighth-inning sacrifice soar for the NL East-leading Phillies, who have received 10 of 10 and will go for a three-game brush on Thursday using Roy Oswalt facing Chris Carpenter.

Howard, who grew up inside suburban St. Louis yet still lives there, furthermore singled and is a career .374 batter with 9 homers as well as 34 RBI in 20 games at Busch Arena. Both are highs for visiting players with the 6-year-old ballpark and also the homer shattered a tie together with Adam Dunn and Prince Fielder.

"It's property, I believe it's a little different when a gentleman will get to go back home and also play where all of it began," Howard explained. "You're just a lot more comfortable, I guess."

Lee (8-5) has won all of his starts off this month, allowing only one run with 33 innings while lowering his ERA from 3.94 to two.Eighty seven. The 2008 Ing Cy Young winner adopted a two-hitter more than Florida with his eighth career shutout and has a 23-inning scoreless ability.

Leaning on the cutter, Lee retired 11 straight between the third and 7th inning and threw a career-high 126 pitches. Only Lohse arrived at third base immediately after hitting a leadoff dual off a curveball inside third for their initial extra-base hit of year.

"He threw the ball well all evening seeing that advertised," mentioned Cardinals leadoff man Ryan Theriot, which had a single along with walk. "You know what you will definitely get. I thought we had a couple of small chances presently there, but Cliff's a great pitcher and that's what he is doing."

Lee can be 6-1 since losing 3-1 from St. Louis on May 16 when he walked a career-high six in 6 1/3 innings. He / she opened this sport using 7 straight golf balls before settling in, and made a nice moving stab on Pete Kozma's grounder up the midst to help keep the Cardinals away from the board within the next.

Including the loss from St. Louis in May possibly, Lee had been 0-3 using a 5.84 Time in his 4 prior road starts.

"That's simply someone breaking down statistics and nitpicking little things,Inches Lee said. "To me personally, it doesn't matter if I message at home or on the road. It's all regulated the same."