Carpenter went 2-for-4 with a double and a run in a loss to the Reds on Monday.

EDGE Analysis

Although the Cardinals offense was largely stuck in a funk Monday, Carpenter is seemingly immune from any offensive malaise these days. He laced his 31st double of the season off starter Luis Castillo for one of his two hits, extending his hitting streak to eight games in the process. Carpenter prolific July has seen him slash .364/.481/.939 over 81 plate appearances thus far, a span during which he's also generated an eye-popping 1.421 OPS.

Carpenter combined to go 2-for-4 in the Cardinals' doubleheader Saturday and hit a solo home run in both games, including a pinch-hit homer in the second contest.

EDGE Analysis

The surface of the sun has nothing on Carpenter, who now has eight homers in his past six games, highlighted by his historic trio during a seven-RBI effort Friday. Carpenter tagged Tyler Chatwood in the third inning of the first contest and lifted one off Randy Rosario as a pinch hitter in the nightcap. For the year, he's slashed .277/.386/.593 with 25 homers, 53 RBI and 64 runs scored in 394 plate appearances. Heading into Saturday, he rattled off a .352/.470/.926 for the month, in which he now has 10 homers. Carpenter owns the fantasy baseball world right now.

Carpenter is on the bench for the second game of Saturday's doubleheader against the Cubs.

EDGE Analysis

Carpenter picked up his fifth homer of the series in the afternoon game and has now homered in his last five games. He won't get the chance to add to that in the second game Saturday, with Jose Martinez starting at first base in his place.

Carpenter went 1-for-4 with a solo home run in a loss to the Cubs on Thursday.

EDGE Analysis

Carpenter essentially started the second half of the season the way he ended the first, namely, leaving the yard for a third straight game. In what is now a two-month-plus tear at the plate, the 32-year-old has boosted his once anemic .558 OPS to .909, which qualifies as the 16th-highest in all of baseball.

Carpenter went 1-for-3 with a solo home run and a walk in a win over the Reds on Sunday.

EDGE Analysis

Carpenter led off the bottom of the first with his 19th homer, which served as his second in the last two games. The 32-year-old heads into the All-Star break having reached safely in six consecutive games, the latest example of the dramatic turnaround to his season. Carpenter was slashing .199/.320/.370 as recently as May 23, but he'll enter the second half of the season with a .263/.373/.530 line that includes 47 extra-base hits (28 doubles, 19 homers) and 43 RBI.

Carpenter went 1-for-2 with a double and two walks in a loss to the White Sox on Wednesday.

EDGE Analysis

Carpenter was essentially the lone bright spot in the shutout loss, logging the Cardinals' lone extra-base hit of the night. The veteran infielder has continued to be a thorn in the side of opposing pitching to open July, as evidenced by a .432 on-base percentage that's comprised of 10 hits and nine walks over his first 10 games (nine starts) of the month. Six of those hits have been of the extra-base variety, leading to an impressive .571 slugging percentage over that span as well.

Carpenter slugged a three-run home run in a pinch-hit at-bat during a loss to the Giants on Sunday.

EDGE Analysis

Called on to hit for reliever Brett Cecil in the eighth, Carpenter came through with a 391-foot shot to right that plated Paul DeJong and Yairo Munoz. The round tripper is just the latest taste of offensive success for the veteran, who's turned his season around by boosting his season average 59 points since May 25.

Carpenter is out of the lineup Sunday against the Giants.

EDGE Analysis

St. Louis manager Mike Matheny will use an exclusively right-handed lineup to counter southpaw Madison Bumgarner, with the lefty-hitting Carpenter giving way at third base to Jedd Gyorko. Carpenter had started each of the Cardinals' last 22 games and has been one of the top offensive producers in the league over that stretch, slashing .321/.439/.728 with eight home runs, 22 runs and 15 RBI.

Carpenter went 3-for-4 with an RBI single, two doubles, a walk and a run in a win over the Diamondbacks on Wednesday.

EDGE Analysis

Carpenter turned in another one of his superior efforts from the top of the order, generating his third multi-hit effort over the last nine games. The veteran infielder is hitting a scorching .469 (15-for-32) with six doubles, two home runs, four RBI, six walks and 10 runs over that span, a stretch that includes a 5-for-5 tally against the Indians on June 26. After seeing his average and slugging percentage dip as low as .199 and .370, respectively, as recently as May 23, Carpenter has boosted those figures to .263 and .509, a season-changing surge that shows no signs of abating.

Carpenter went 5-for-5 with two home runs, a double, three RBI and five runs scored in Tuesday's 11-2 win over the Indians.

EDGE Analysis

Carpenter blasted solo home runs in his first and last at-bats of the game, adding in a double and a couple of singles in between. The monster night comes on the heels of a three-hit effort the day before, and he's been red-hot all June. In 91 at-bats in the month, Carpenter is slashing .319/.404/.659 with eight homers, seven doubles, 15 RBI and 23 runs scored.