{"id":11227,"date":"2018-07-23T15:47:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T19:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11227"},"modified":"2018-07-23T15:51:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T19:51:31","slug":"cardinals-matt-carpenter-responds-to-gif-displays-salsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/07\/23\/cardinals-matt-carpenter-responds-to-gif-displays-salsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals Matt Carpenter responds to GIF, displays Salsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11228\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/07\/carpenter-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/07\/carpenter-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/07\/carpenter-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/07\/carpenter.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Carpenter is hot right now. Like salsa hot. While his recent streak of homering in six straight games (8 overall homers) was snapped on Sunday, Carpter has seen his OPS rise from a respectable .866 on July 1st to a sultry .975 following a weekend series against the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter was asked what the secret to his streak was following a 6-3 Cardinals win in the second game of a series against the Cubs, he replied &#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s the salsa? I don&#8217;t know. But I&#8217;m going to keep eating it for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That has everyone wondering, exactly what is in that salsa? And would consuming it have prevented <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/07\/23\/tim-tebow-has-broken-hand-will-require-surgery\/\">Tim Tebow from suffering a broken hand<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>MLB tweeted out a gif of Carpenter and\u00a0 Marcell Ozuna on Sunday&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattCarp13?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MattCarp13<\/a> what do you put in that salsa? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YTgz71Bvnw\">pic.twitter.com\/YTgz71Bvnw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB GIFS (@MLBGIFs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBGIFs\/status\/1021153878618836992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>and the Cardinals star responded Monday with a picture of the cooking that is going on in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It\u2019s here in Cincinnati!! Let\u2019s go birds! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cq15YLbPWr\">pic.twitter.com\/Cq15YLbPWr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Carpenter (@MattCarp13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattCarp13\/status\/1021478918782627840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now it&#8217;s becoming a thing,&#8221; Carpenter said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/matt-carpenter-homers-in-sixth-straight-game\/c-286678582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via MLB<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to keep eating it until it stops happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given Great American Ballpark&#8217;s history of long balls, Reds fans may just want to be prepared now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Carpenter is hot right now. Like salsa hot. While his recent streak of homering in six straight games (8 overall homers) was snapped on Sunday, Carpter has seen his OPS rise from a respectable .866 on July 1st to a sultry .975 following a weekend series against the Cubs. Carpenter was asked what the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,666,501,29],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-matt-carpenter","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11227"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11232,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11227\/revisions\/11232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11227"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}