Chris Carpenter
Chris Carpenter
Christopher John "Chris" Carpenteris an American retired professional baseball starting pitcher. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the Toronto Blue Jays and St. Louis Cardinals from 1997 to 2012. A Cy Young Award winner and two-time World Series champion, he was also a three-time All-Star selection. In addition, he was twice named the Sporting News National League Pitcher of the Year, and voted for a number of Comeback Player of the Year awards for surmounting injury...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 April 1975
CityExeter, NH
execute last next prepare results start
You can't take the results from your last start into your next one. You have to prepare differently and prepare yourself to go out and execute pitches.
certain competitor difference five games guys line mean point prepared ready results season start veteran weeks whatever win year
You can say whatever you want. The results weren't there but ... we've pitched well all year and we've got five veteran guys ready to go out and compete. I don't see any difference when we start the series. I think we've got guys who are going to be prepared to come out and pitch. You get to a certain point in the season with 2 1/2 weeks left. Granted, as a competitor the games mean a lot to you. You want to go out and win and do well. But we clinched and there was nothing on the line anymore.
certain competitor difference five games guys line mean point prepared ready results season start veteran weeks whatever win year
You can say whatever you want, ... The results weren't there but ... we've pitched well all year and we've got five veteran guys ready to go out and compete. I don't see any difference when we start the series. I think we've got guys who are going to be prepared to come out and pitch. You get to a certain point in the season with 2 1/2 weeks left. Granted, as a competitor the games mean a lot to you. You want to go out and win and do well. But we clinched and there was nothing on the line anymore.
box front goes last season stuff
All that stuff - the awards, the stats, all that stuff - goes back in the box when you get down here. It's not about last season anymore. It's about what's in front of us.
couple defensive early nice
I thought early on I got away with a couple pitches, but we made some nice defensive plays.
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I was cruising along and I felt like I was throwing the ball well, and got there in the seventh and all of a sudden I started getting some balls up and it got away from me. No matter who you face, you're going to give up hits if you don't execute pitches down in the zone.
pitches throw
I think that I wasn't going to throw many pitches today,
chance
I went back out to go and they weren't going to take a chance with an 8-0 lead,
bare baseball catching hand point spin supposed
I was just lobbing it to the point Mel was catching it with his bare hands. I was just lobbing it to feel it come off my hand and feel the spin it was supposed to have.
compete continue
If you go out there relaxed, you're going to give up runs. You have to go out and continue to compete and make pitches.
balls good hit nice strange swings
It was a strange night. I put good swings on two balls and hit them hard. It was nice, but it would have been nice to win.
looked
It's a new game. That's the way I looked at it all year,
compete defensive feeling hopefully jimmy mind nice start track
It's huge. We need Jimmy in the lineup every day to come out there and compete every day and be a big part of that offense, never mind his defensive play. It was nice to see him back in there and doing what he did today. Hopefully we can get him on track and he can start feeling better.
good guy job
Their guy did a pretty good job tonight, obviously.