"During the 2004 postseason, Curt Schilling, then with the Boston Red Sox, recalled a conversation that he'd had with Terry Mulholland when the two were Phillies teammates a decade earlier.

According to Schilling, Mulholland said that "the awesome thing about being a starting pitcher is you have the ability to make 55,000 people shut up when you're on the road."

Cole Hamels gets the opportunity to be a silencer Tuesday night when he starts Game 3 of the National League Division Series against lefty Jaime Garcia and the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium."