That was vintage Carpenter. He had first and second, the middle of the lineup, and he gets out of it. That's what he does.

Early on without Lance Berkman, that really stretched their lineup, and then after Berkman got back in the lineup and Morgan got hot ... I think they are very much like last year,

[Carpenter is] really going after hitters, and ... getting in situations and making pitches and staying away from the big damage. I mean, that's what he's been doing consistently.

Every once in a while he tweaks it and then he gets some relief, ... It hasn't been unrelenting. He'll make a move and all of a sudden jolt it.

That's how he pitched early in the year. He just got in a funk. In the middle of that funk, he had a couple of games like this and we couldn't score for him. ... This is what he's capable of doing.

If Wally gets excited and gives him an inch, ... it's going to be two or three inches.