"Lost amid the controversial end to Chris Carpenter's 2-0 lockdown of the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night was his quiet eclipse of 200 innings pitched.

Carpenter, 36, passed the threshold in the third inning of his complete game and entered Saturday with 206 1/3 innings, third in the National League behind the Los Angeles Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw and the Philadelphia Phillies' Roy Halladay. Carpenter finished last season with 235 innings and currently owns 634 innings from 2009-11.

The figure is even more impressive against the backdrop of 2008-09, when Carpenter virtually lost two seasons because of elbow issues that eventually required surgery and a dysfunctional nerve that fed his pitching arm."