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Elias Says ...

By Elias Sports Bureau, Inc.
Special to ESPN Insider

Saturday, September 3, 2005

A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports: Major League Baseball Carpenter • On Saturday night, Chris Carpenter became the first 20-game winner in the majors this season. Since 1900, only three other Cardinals pitchers were the "first to 20" in the majors leagues in a given year: Dizzy Dean, who did it in each of three consecutive seasons (1934, 1935 and 1936), Mort Cooper (1942) and Joaquin Andujar (1985). • Carpenter is the seventh different pitcher t ...

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