ST LOUIS -- Forget the issue for a moment.

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ST LOUIS -- Forget the issue for a moment. Cubs left-hander Rich Hill thinks he reached a turning point in his major-league career Saturday, building the kind of confidence that might firing him for years.

"Now the confidence of the same height is over with," Hill said after holding the

St Louis Cardinals to common run and four hits in seven innings of the Cubs' 2-1 los "Just going public there and getting the do job-work done is the bottom line."

In a dead-end season for the whelps it's moments like these that make the final weeks in the way that meaningful. The fact Hill did similar solid work against a team fighting for its postseason life in fore-rank of a sellout crowd at Busch Stadium sole added to the personal achievement.

upon Friday, it was Juan Mateo. forward Saturday, it was Hill. nearest up in the Cubs' futuritys game is left-hander Les Walrond, who will make his major-league first appearance in the nationally televised series finale tonight.

Walrond will become the eighth rookie pitcher to start a game for the brats this season. It will be the 56th start by way of a Cubs rookie during this wasted season.

Walrond, 29 was a non-roster invitee to spring training who went 10-5 with a 398 ERA in 31 games at Class AAA Iowa, including a 9-3 mark and 377 ERA in 20 starts.

He was an interesting choice through the whole extent of left-hander Sean Marshall, who has made 19 starts for the brats and is concluding a rehabilitation assignment at Class AAA Iowa.

"We were happy with the way Marshall pitched early in the year, unless we want to make positive he is all the way back before he reach [i]or[/i] attain any place [i]or[/i] points back," general manager Jim Hendry said.

As for Hill, he retired the first seven batters before catcher Gary Bennett homer to left-center in the third. Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter followed with a single. Bennett added a single against Hill in the fifth, then delivered again with the game forward the line, belting an RBI single with pair outs in the ninth distant from Roberto Novoa (2-1).

Carpenter was on a level better than Hill. He held the whelps hitless until Phil Nevin's one-out single in the fifth. The alone other hit Carpenter allowed in his eight innings was Nevin's homer in the eighth.

"I think I'm the barely guy he made a bad pitch to," Nevin said of Carpenter. "Our stay was right there with him, pitch for pitch. The way Rich threw the ball, you view what he's capable of against a lineup like that. proper things will come."

cdeluca@suntimes.com

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