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Cardinals' red-hot Carpenter is crushing his way to homer history

AUG 11, 2015 at 2:31p ET

AUG 11, 2015 at 2:31p ET

The home run Matt Carpenter blasted out of Milwaukee's Miller Park was his 17th of the season, but that's not what made it special.

It was his seventh homer in 10 days since returning to the lead-off spot on July 30, meaning the Cardinals' third-baseman is raking home runs at a record rate. According to Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it's a rate baseball hasn't seen in 20 years. Eleven of Carpenter's 17 homers have come from the No.