The New York Yankees have given Matt Carpenter's career a second wind. Carpenter has been nothing but an absolute monster at the plate since he signed a one-year deal with the Yankees that's worth $2 million back in May. On Saturday night against rivals Boston Red Sox at home, Carpenter blessed the Yankees again with an insane performance just to add to his snowballing legend in The Big Apple.
Carpenter finished the game going 2-for-4 at the plate, with both hits leaving the park, while also driving in seven runs. The 36-year-old Matt Carpenter entered the game with a .352 batting average and a nearly anomalous 1.338 OPS, and with the body of work he just had against the Red Sox this weekend, his numbers are just bound to get even higher.
Here is Carpenter adding to the lead of the Yankees in the fifth inning with his second (!) three-run homer blast of the contest.
MATT CARPENTER AGAIN! HE IS UNSTOPPABLE! pic.twitter.com/W2BVFoI8Wi
— Talkin' Yanks (@TalkinYanks) July 17, 2022
Yankees fans made sure to shower Matt Carpenter with love during the game, which the Yankees won, 14-1.
Matt Carpenter just got his first Yankee Stadium curtain call. That was cool. Fans were chanting his name. Anthony Rizzo signaled to Carpenter to get up and give them what they wanted. Carpenter did it.
Carpenter has always been a great baseball talent, as he already appeared in three MLB All-Star games long before he arrived in New York, but his career was on the decline since around 2019 when he posted .226/.334/.392. From 2020 to 2021, Matt Carpenter only slashed .176/.313/.291 to go with a lackluster 70 OPS+, leading to the Cardinals deciding not to pick up their 2022 option on their long-time third baseman. The Texas Rangers signed him to a minor-league deal last March before getting released by the team in May.
And look where Carpenter is now, just getting absolutely showered by praise by the largest baseball market in the world.
Baseball is weird like that.
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