St. Louis Post-Dispatch · May 13, 2018
Slumping Carpenter taking a break to reset
Matt Carpenter talks with umpire D.J. Reyburn after he was called out on strikes earlier this month. Photo by Chris Lee,“Just a reset, physically and mentally, and hopefully this will be a good thing for me,” Carpenter said Saturday afternoon at Petco Park. “I think you get to a point where you aren’t having good at-bats and not having success and you try to do more and create hits and get in bad habits. That’s where I was. I’m getting back to the ground floor of fundamentals. Just grooving it with that nice easy swing.”