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- Updated: August 7, 2016
ST. LOUIS — Despite testing out at full strength, Matt Carpenter, who showed some hesitation in the field and at the plate in Saturday’s 13-5 loss, was out of the Cardinals’ starting lineup on Sunday. Manager Mike Matheny said that Sunday had already been scripted as a scheduled day off for Carpenter, who came off the 15-day disabled list on Friday after a month missed with a right oblique injury.
Carpenter was available off the bench for Sunday’s series finale against the Braves, and he is expected back in the lineup on Monday against the Reds.
“You do so many drills and everything is so controlled for a long period of time — whether it’s range of motion or intensity — that even when you do let it go, you wonder, ‘Is there a movement that’s going to take me backwards?'” Matheny said. “He’s just at that point of trusting it. He felt good about it when he was on his rehab assignment, and for some reason, yesterday was one of those days where he didn’t feel like he could completely let it go. But he can. It’s just a matter of him getting past it. He’s in a good place …
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