After striking out his first three times up, Carpenter hit his sixth homer of the year Thursday, a two-run shot that sent the Cardinals to a 2-1 victory over Cleveland. Carpenter found no luck against Trevor Bauer, but former Cardinal lefty reliever Marc Rzepczynski came in to face him in the eighth and promptly gave up the homer. Carpenter endured a bizarre bout of fatigue last week, but appears to be over that and is having an impressive bounce-back campaign.