OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Anyone going out to the Omaha Storm Chasers ball game on Aug. 1 won’t be able to buy peanuts or, for that matter, Cracker Jack popcorn.  The Pacific Coast League affiliate of the Kansas City Royals will take anything containing peanuts off its concessions menu for the game against the Reno Aces. The Storm Chasers and an Omaha allergy clinic are holding Peanut Free Night to bring awareness to people who have peanut allergies. Several minor-league baseball teams have held peanut-free games for years, and major-league teams occasionally reserve sections of their stadiums for people who have peanut allergies.  About 3 million Americans are allergic to peanuts or foods containing peanuts.

ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter expects to begin a rehab program next week following surgery to relieve nerve compression that left his arm and much of the right side of his body numb.  The 37-year-old Carpenter gave no guarantee Tuesday that he’d be back without a doubt next season. But Carpenter said the surgeon, Dr. Greg Pearl of Dallas, told him there were no complications. Carpenter’s top rib was removed along with two of the connecting muscles. He was injured in spring training and last pitched as the Game 7 World Series winner last fall.

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Lance Berkman of the St. Louis Cardinals was taken out for a pinch runner not long after getting hit by a pitch on his surgically-repaired right knee in the third inning of Tuesday’s game against the Dodgers. Trainers attended to Berkman after he was struck by a breaking ball from the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw to lead off the inning. 
 
Berkman took his base but only trotted to second when Daniel Descalso followed with a single. After a chat with third base coach Jose Oquendo, Matt Carpenter replaced Berkman on the bases, and then took over at first base. Berkman is batting .281 with a homer and six RBIs in 21 games. He’s just 4 for 22 with two RBIs and two doubles since coming off the 15-day disabled list to start the second half without a rehab stint following surgery in late May.

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Adam Wainwright’s first two RBIs of the season helped knock out Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw in the sixth inning in a game that began in 103-degree heat as the St. Louis Cardinals ended Los Angeles’ five-game winning streak with an 8-2 victory on Tuesday night.    Wainwright (8-10) allowed two runs and seven hits with seven strikeouts in 7 1-3 innings.

He was batting .079 (3-for-38) with three singles and 17 strikeouts coming in. Wainwright doubled to left-center with two outs in the fifth for St. Louis’ first run, then scored the tying run on Rafael Furcal’s single. After Daniel Descalso was intentionally walked to load the bases in the sixth, Wainwright walked on five pitches to give the Cardinals a two-run lead in a six-run sixth that put them up 8-2.  Kershaw (7-6) gave up eight runs and seven hits in 5 2-3 innings, the second-most runs ever allowed by the 2011 NL Cy Young winner.

Class 3-A

• Western Dubuque 12, Harlan 1 (5 inn.)
• Bishop Heelen Catholic 5, ADM 3
• Dallas Cener-Grimes 3, Washington 2 (9 inn.)
• Decorah 5, Benton 3 (9 inn.)

Wednesday’s Schedule @ Principal Park in Des Moines

Class 4-A

• Noon — Iowa City West vs. West Des Moines Valley
• 2:00 — Ankeny vs. Davenport North
• 6:00 — Cedar Rapids Kennedy vs. Linn-Mar
• 8:00 — Ft. Dodge vs. West Des Moines Dowling

At the Boy’s State Baseball Tournament Tuesday, in Des Moines, Western Dubuque teed off on Harlan pitching in Class 3-A, to move on to the next round with a 12-1 victory in five innings. Nick Tuttle tossed 2.2 innings of one-run ball to pick up the win and went 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI at the plate. Harlan was held to just two hits on the day, while the Bobcats knocked 14. Ben Bruck started for the Cyclones, but did not escape the first inning and suffered the loss. Ben Bruck led off the game with a walk and then advanced to second on a stolen base before taking third on a throwing error by the catcher.

Jake Paeges took the second walk of the inning to put runners on the corners with one down. Ludwig erased Paeges with a perfect throw to gun him down on a stolen base attempt. Zach Osborn followed with his 26th RBI of the season to plate the Cyclones’ first run. Western Dubuque took no time to battle back, scoring seven runs on eight singles in the first and sending 12 batters to the plate. Nick Tuttle helped his own cause in the bottom of the inning, ripping a one out single to left and moving to third on a Ryan Lehmann single to center.

Tyson Massey reached base on a fielder’s choice, but Ben Bruck’s throw sailed into right, allowing Tuttle to score and keeping runners at the corners. Massey swiped second and then Hunter Westhoff broke the tie with a two-run single to left. Cody Kramer looped and RBI single to right to score the Bobcats’ fourth run of the inning and chase Josh Bruck out of the game. With two down and runners on the corners, Zach Osborn took the hill and allowed Adam Hoeger to score on Brendan McCoy’s infield single. Logan Pitz and Nick Tuttle followed with back-to-back singles in their second at-bats in the inning to plate two more runs.

The Bobcats added two more in the second on three straight singles by Massey, Westhoff, and Cody Reimer to start the frame. Massey then knocked the Bobcats first extra base hit with a gapper in the third to score Lehmann from first to extend their lead to 10-1. Hoeger took a one out walk in the fourth and swiped second, then scored on a throwing error by Bruck at short. Logan Pitz plated Cody Kramer to give Western Dubuque a 12-1 advantage. The Western Dubuque Bobcats will face off against the DCG Mustangs in the next round. First pitch for the semi-finals is set for noon on Friday at Principal Park.