The Cardinals traveled to Pittsburgh Thursday evening to start a weekend series against the Pirates without All-Star third baseman Matt Carpenter, who was told to stay home for the weekend to recover from what manager Mike Matheny described as “extreme fatigue,” according to Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
According to Jenifer Langosch of MLB.com, the team’s medical staff had been monitoring Carpenter since he excited Sunday’s game against the Pirates due to dizziness and light-headedness. Although he was in the lineup for the next three days, the medical staff continued to detect an accelerated heart rate as well as dehydration, and Carpenter also had trouble sleeping.
“We had an incident where we had to bring him out of the game a few days ago,” the manager explained. “He came out with some dizziness, some dehydration, and accelerated heart rate. Doctors had a look at him. Things still weren’t feeling quite right, so we had him checked out.
“Their suggestion was we just have to back off.”
The Cardinals expect Carpenter to rejoin the team Tuesday in Cleveland and be available for that series. Matheny said Carpenter remained at home and was prescribed rest.
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