“Just a reset, physically and mentally, and hopefully this will be a good thing for me,” Carpenter said Saturday afternoon at Petco Park. “I think you get to a point where you aren’t having good at-bats and not having success and you try to do more and create hits and get in bad habits. That’s where I was. I’m getting back to the ground floor of fundamentals. Just grooving it with that nice easy swing.”
Even before striking out as a pinch hitter in the seventh inning Saturday, Carpenter had seen his average dive from .170 to .