13 Matt Carpenter 3B

Carpenter went 1-for-3 with a solo home run and a walk Thursday against the Brewers.

Carpenter took the first offering of the game from left-hander Brent Suter out of the park to straightaway center field for his 13th home run of the season. He entered the game slugging just .383 with three home runs in 47 at-bats against southpaws this season, though he has seen the ball well of late with five home runs in his past seven games. After a concerning April, Carpenter has hit 10 home runs between May and June.

Carpenter went 2-for-5 with two runs scored, three RBI, a home run and a double in Tuesday's 7-6 win over Philadelphia.

Carpenter hit a home run for the third consecutive game with his ninth-inning shot Tuesday giving the Cardinals the late lead over the Philllies. The 32-year-old now has a .239/.335/.465 slash line with 12 home runs and 30 RBI in 243 at-bats this season.

Carpenter went 2-for-5 with a double and a solo home run in an extra-inning loss to the Phillies on Monday.

Carpenter opened the scoring for the Cardinals with a 363-foot shot to left in the third, his second in as many games and third over his last four contests. The veteran got off to an 0-for-11 start in June over the first three games of the month, but he's hitting .308 with three doubles, four home runs, six RBI, four walks and 10 runs in his last 12 games (56 plate appearances).

Carpenter went 1-for-4 with a solo home run in the Cardinals' 5-0 victory over the Cubs on Sunday.

That's two long balls in three games for Carpenter, who seems to finally be putting together a sustained stretch of production coming off a brutal start to the season. The homer was his 10th of the year, and his .232/.332/.433 slash line - while still lagging substantially behind his usual standards - is at least starting to look more like the player we've come to expect over the past few seasons.

Carpenter went 2-for-4 with a home run, a walk and two RBI in Friday's loss to the Cubs.

Carpenter hit a solo home run -- his ninth of the year -- off Jon Lester in the sixth, and later slashed an RBI single off reliever Anthony Bass in the seventh. This was Carpenter's third multi-hit performance in his last five games, bringing his line to .237/.340/.433 on the year. The 32-year-old had an incredibly slow start to the year (hitting below .200 up until May 20) but he's steadily gotten more hits to fall over the past month.