 The afternoon that Matt Carpenter had, even more impressive considering he wasn't in the original lineup and he hasn't started a game for you guys in quite some time. Yeah, I put him in the garage for a week and pulled him out for a spin. And I mean, that's impressive. What he's doing, what he's done since he's gotten here. Six homers now. You know, I think he's had probably three balls to the wall, too, for outs. It's just been a lot of really good at bats. Tremendous play down there at third. Really impressive. And you're seeing, I think, the fruits of some labor that he put in over the wintertime. And I know he was very curious about to go find out in spring training and early this year. And he's seeing the fruits of that from a guy that's been a really talented player in this league for a while. Clearly not just him this afternoon. You got a lot of contributions up and down the order. But when you set the tone like that in the first inning, just how much does that help the offense, help your staff relax overall? Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's great. It's not like we're pounding the ball all over the place there early necessarily either. It was just a lot of really, really good at bats making their guy work hard. G, Lameju, Carpenter, all with just really good, really good job of controlling the zone there. And then Kiner gets a big hit. Just quality at bats that set the tone for the day. You've continually said Higashioka will get going. We've seen it during spring training. But what do you think it meant to him to be able to drive the ball a little bit today? Yeah, great. Good to see him really get into one. We know he's capable of that. And it's a long season. And we'll see some more of that. Susan. On the field, Matt had said that the best thing was the play that he made at third base because he felt like he was a player. Do you understand that feeling that he was out there and for the first time in quite a while? Yeah, it was a great play, by the way. I thought he made another good play to his left, kind of slowly hit ball where he kind of got to move across and make a good play. Yeah, you know, he's been such a joy to be around since he's got here. You know, a guy with his track record, a guy with his resume, a guy that's had his career that's just come in here and, you know, you can tell every day just excited to be here and has jumped right in with those guys and become a huge part of this. And in the opportunities that he's gotten, he's obviously taken full advantage of and really excited that he's on our team. Lindsay. I'm assuming you were pretty familiar with Carpenter previously. Yeah. How different does his approach to the plate in a swing look to you now versus, kind of, historically? No, I think it resembles who he's been and who he was when he was a really good player in this league. So there's nothing that I'm seeing, like, in whatever subtle adjustments that he made that he wanted to improve on the last couple of years. He looks like the Matt Carpenter I've watched as an all-star player with the Cardinals.