In the final 15 games of the season, only three times did they follow a game in which they scored four or more runs with a game of four or more runs.
Get Matt Carpenter’s bat back in the lineup for Game 3 on Sunday. He’s had one at-bat (a hit) in the first two games. He had a .500 slugging percentage in September. And even in a bad overall year, he still had the second-best walk rate on the Cardinals. And, in a very small sample size, the lefty Carpenter is two for five against Game 3 starter Mike Soroka, a righty.