{"id":48300,"date":"2022-06-13T06:14:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T06:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/matt-carpenter-becomes-first-yankee-to-hit-six-hrs-in-first-10-games\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T06:14:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T06:14:31","slug":"matt-carpenter-becomes-first-yankee-to-hit-six-hrs-in-first-10-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/matt-carpenter-becomes-first-yankee-to-hit-six-hrs-in-first-10-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Carpenter Becomes First Yankee to Hit Six HRs in First 10 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><!-- tml-version=\"2\" --><\/p>\n<p>Forget about Aaron Judge or Giancarlo Stanton: the real Yankees slugger is Matt Carpenter.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s only a mild hyperbole given the tear Carpenter is on to begin his career in pinstripes.  The former Cardinal agreed to a minor-league deal with the Rangers this offseason but was released in May without receiving a big-league call-up.  After signing with the Yankees on May 26, he debuted later that day and hasn&#8217;t stopped raking since.<\/p>\n<p>During Sunday&#8217;s 18\u20134 win over the Cubs, Carpenter was the star of the show.  The third baseman went 3-for-4 with two home runs, a double and seven RBI as part of a Yankees onslaught.  His two-homer effort gives him six in 10 games with the team, making him the first player in franchise history to accomplish that feat.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<section class=\"m-in-content-recommendation m-detail--in-content-recommendation h-isolated-styles mm-component-stack--is-body-item\" style=\"--title_size_a_font_size:16;--title_size_b_font_size:16;--title_size_c_font_size:16;\">\n<p><span>Scroll to Continue<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>So far, Carpenter is 8-for-24 with six home runs and a double to start his Yankees career, reaching base 14 times in 30 plate appearances.  He has a ludicrous 1.083 slugging percentage, which is what happens when 25% of your at-bats result in home runs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a fun return to form for the now-mustachioed 36-year-old, who was once upon a time one of the most consistent hitters in the game.  During his prime years in St. Louis from 2013 to &#8217;18, Carpenter made three All-Star teams and had an OPS + of 131. He fell off his usual pace in 2019 and completely bottomed out in &#8217;20 and &#8217;21, leading the Cardinals to decline their team option on him for this season.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<p>The Yankees have been baseball&#8217;s best team to this point, so they hardly need another star turn from a previously under-the-radar player.  But as long as Carpenter keeps swinging a hot bat, the Bombers will be that much more difficult to contend with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More MLB Coverage:<br \/><\/strong><strong>\u2022 How Concerned Should We Be About These Struggling All-Stars?<br \/><\/strong><strong>\u2022 Hot Seat Index: Which MLB Managers Could Be Fired Next?<br \/><\/strong><strong>\u2022 Joe Maddon&#8217;s Firing Deepens Angels&#8217; Era of Instability<br \/><\/strong><strong>\u2022 Manny Machado Is Letting His Play Do the Talking<br \/><\/strong><strong>\u2022 <\/strong><strong>The Absolute Improbability of Nick Castellanos&#8217;s Drives Into Deep Left Field<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/template\" id=\"facebookPixel1103097776498609\">!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()\n{n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}\n;if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n(function(){\n    fbq('init', '1103097776498609');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    var contentId = 'ci02a3910190002519';\n    if (contentId !== '') {\n        fbq('track', 'ViewContent', {content_ids: [contentId], content_type: 'product'});\n    }\n})();<\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget about Aaron Judge or Giancarlo Stanton: the real Yankees slugger is Matt Carpenter. That&#8217;s only a mild hyperbole given the tear Carpenter is on to begin his career in pinstripes. The former Cardinal agreed to a minor-league deal with the Rangers this offseason but was released in May without receiving a big-league call-up. After &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/matt-carpenter-becomes-first-yankee-to-hit-six-hrs-in-first-10-games\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matt Carpenter Becomes First Yankee to Hit Six HRs in First 10 Games<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[547,236,548],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.si.com\/.image\/t_share\/MTkwMTU1MTA1ODQzMDI5NjYy\/matt-carpenter.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}