Matt Carpenter seemed to defy the laws of physics over the weekend.
The St. Louis Cardinals DH Carpenter had one of the strangest at-bats of the season in the fourth inning of Sunday’s game against Milwaukee. Carpenter swung at an 0-1 offering from Bryse Wilson and broke his bat … before he even made contact with the pitch.
Check out the surreal scene.
https://twitter.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1789749088419979396
Here is a video of the swing in normal speed.
https://twitter.com/ActionNetworkHQ/status/1789759309863063693
The 38-year-old former All-Star Carpenter has taken more than 5,600 plate appearances over the course of his career but that definitely had to be a first. Either he was gripping the bat too hard, he was gripping the bat too low, he was swinging with the force of a Mike Tyson haymaker, or all of the above.
Carpenter, who returned to the Cardinals over the offseason on a one-year deal, would eventually line out in the at-bat. But that had to be baseball’s flukiest broken-bat sequence since this one from several years ago.
