1B Matt Carpenter (virus) didn't start for the second straight game, although he was available for late-game duty if needed. Carpenter was sent home Wednesday so that he wouldn't affect any teammate's healthy and didn't play. Carpenter could return to the lineup Friday night to face Tampa Bay RHP Jake Odorizzi, against whom he blasted a leadoff homer three years ago.

1B Matt Carpenter is just 3-for-14 this road trip, but he made the most of his six innings before he left the game with the Cardinals comfortably ahead. He was 1-for-3 with his 16th homer and a walk.

1B Matt Carpenter went 1-for-3 with an RBI double and two walks, giving him 16 games with multiple walks this year. Carpenter has scored runs in six straight games, which helps explain why the Cardinals have a whopping 58 runs in that span. Despite struggling for the season's first half, Carpenter has gotten his average up to .253 and is on pace to walk 100 times for the first time in his career.

1B Matt Carpenter singled, doubled, walked and was hit by a pitch on Tuesday night. He is hitting .500 (5-for-10) with four extra-base hits and six RBIs in his past three games. He is batting .463 with an .870 on-base percentage with 15 RBIs in 14 career games at Kauffman Stadium.

1B Matt Carpenter returned to the Cardinals' lineup Thursday. He was a late scratch a night earlier because of a sore hip. Carpenter, who went 0-for-4, at Milwaukee leads the Cardinals with 98 starts this season.

1B Matt Carpenter was scratched from the Cardinals' lineup just before game time Wednesday because of discomfort in his right hip. Carpenter leads St. Louis with 97 starts this season.

1B Matt Carpenter (quad/dehydration) didn't start Monday night, with rookie Luke Voit taking his place and batting sixth. Carpenter left Sunday night's 5-3 loss at the Chicago Cubs before the bottom of the second inning. He was involved in a play at the plate where he was tagged out trying to score on Jedd Gyorko's two-out double, taking a hard fall after an emphatic tag from Willson Contreras.

1B Matt Carpenter was 2-for-5 with a double and collected two hits in the Cardinals nine-run eighth Friday. He was the second Cardinals player this season to accomplish that. His second hit of the inning -- a single with the bases loaded -- brought his career mark with bases loaded to 21-for-35 (.600) with 61 RBIs.-

1B Matt Carpenter saw his on-base streak end Wednesday night, when he went 0-for-2 before being lifted for a pinch-hitter in the fourth inning of the Cardinals' 7-3 loss to the Mets. Carpenter, who reached base safely in each of his previous 21 games dating to June 22, flied out in a 13-pitch at-bat in the first before flying out again in the third. He batted .289 with a .417 on-base percentage during the streak, which was tied for the longest by a Cardinals player this season. C Yadier Molina reached base in 21 straight games from May 1 to 27. Carpenter is batting .252 with 14 homers and 45 RBIs in 89 games this season.

1B Matt Carpenter, back at his normal spot after playing second Saturday, was 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI. He has a six-game hitting streak (9-for-23).

1B Matt Carpenter was switched to 2B to give Luke Voit a start at 1B and 2B Kolten Wong a night off from the starting lineup. Carpenter made a throwing error on a ground ball in the fourth, but it did not prove costly. He was 2-for-4 at the plate with an RBI and a run scored, extending his hitting streak to five games (7-for-16).

1B Matt Carpenter didn't start for just the eighth time in 80 games this year, as rookie Luke Voit got the call so that St. Louis could run out nine right-handed bats against LHP Gio Gonzalez. Carpenter was 1-for-4 Friday night with a walk, doubling to start a five-run fourth inning. He's expected to play Sunday night in the series finale.

1B Matt Carpenter got a rare day off Monday, representing just the eighth time in 75 games that he hasn't started. Carpenter is in a 3-for-26 skid that's dropped his average to .236, and with LHP Brandon Finnegan going for Cincinnati, manager Mike Matheny opted to give Carpenter a maintenance day. Carpenter should be back in the lineup Tuesday night at Arizona.

1B Matt Carpenter launched his first leadoff homer of the season in the first inning, enabling him to break out of a 1-for-19 skid. It was the 13th leadoff blast of his career and his 14th homer of the season, propelling him into the team lead. Carpenter is 12-of-37 in his career against Pittsburgh starter Gerrit Cole with four homers.

1B Matt Carpenter drew threw more walks against the Phillies on Tuesday night, along with going 1-for-3 with a double in the Cardinals' 8-1 win in 11 innings. It's the sixth straight game in which Carpenter has drawn at least one base on balls, and the third in a row in which he's had multiple walks. He has 11 walks in that span. In 13 games batting leadoff since June 7, he has a .542 OBP.

1B Matt Carpenter has been very productive since moving into the leadoff spot on June 7. Carpenter did not register a hit in Sunday's 8-5 loss to the Baltimore Orioles, but he has hit safely in 10 of the 12 games he has played since moving to the top of the batting order. He is 17-for-42 with seven doubles, four home runs 12 runs scored and 11 RBI as the leadoff man.

1B Matt Carpenter got the nod as the DH and batted leadoff Saturday against the Orioles. Dexter Fowler served as the DH in the series opener but was back in center field. Carpenter went 0-for-3 in the leadoff spot, but reached base twice on a pair of walks. Fowler had a three-run homer.

1B Matt Carpenter stretched his hitting streak to eight games with an RBI double in the second and added a single in the ninth, finishing the game 2-for-3 and reaching base four times. Carpenter is 13-for-31 during his streak and has extra-base hits in seven of them. What's more, Carpenter has doubled in the last five games, tying his career high.

1B Matt Carpenter has struggled overall this year but remains a lock to produce with the bases loaded. Carpenter's two-run double with the sacks filled in the seventh inning Saturday extended his career numbers in that spot to 20-for-34, a .588 average, with 60 RBIs. In four games since returning to the leadoff spot, Carpenter is 6-for-16 with two homers and five RBIs.

1B Matt Carpenter hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning Thursday, his 11th of the season. It's the first time he homered in consecutive games since May 5 and 7. He went 2-for-4 with two RBIs. "He looked good," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "I'd love to see him, see all of them get locked in, and he will. Just hope that is kind of the beginning of seeing a whole group of guys get into that same mentality."