Carter went 1-for-4 with his 10th homer of the year Thursday against the reds.
He's joined a small crowd at the top of the NL homer list, with only Colorado's Nolan Arenado and Trevor Story sitting on more long balls. Five of Carter's have come in the last five games, and he's certainly capable of hitting them in bunches. More impressively, though, he's been able to cut his strikeout rate and is hitting a more-than-respectable .274 -- a dramatic improvement that looks like it may well actually be sustainable to some degree.