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
It's a new game. That's the way I looked at it all year,
It's a great feeling, ... There's not a lot of people that come from this area, never mind play in the big leagues.
I told my wife I didn't want to do it anymore, ... I wanted to come home.
It's all in your mind, ... It has nothing to do with how much rest you have. Concentrating on what you're doing, that's what makes you successful.
When I came back last year, I had in my mind I wasn't going to take anything for granted, ... I knew where I was in 2002, and all of a sudden, it was taken away from me. It's your dream and you're playing in the big leagues and it's all you've ever wanted to do.
When I was out there in the sixth, my hands and my fingers started cramping up, ... The same thing happened when I went up to hit.
We have a solid staff and we have five guys that have experience and know how to pitch. It's going to be a fun year. We've still got to go out and play the games, but we have the potential. We'll see how it plays out.
When you're trying to learn and establish yourself and be consistent in the major leagues, it's hard to do that with the amount of pressure everybody from the outside is putting on you. But obviously all three of us were able to continue to be successful, move on and do the things everybody expected us to be able to do.
We won't know what everything is like until we play in it. If the ball is going to carry, if it's not. No matter what the stadium is, you deal with it. It's going to be there for a long time.
They have been doing it all year, ... They have been doing it against San Diego and they did it again tonight. You can't say enough about the two guys up the middle turning two. They do it all the time.
They have been doing it all year. They did in the series against San Diego, and they did it again tonight.
There was a lot of pressure put on us,
That's why I was getting all those ground balls. It's tough to elevate.
That's how it works sometimes. You just try to go out and do the best you can and hope it's enough to win.