From researcher Tom Orf: Matt Carpenter‘s 12 doubles in the St. Louis Cardinals’ 19 games is tied for the second-most in Major League Baseball history.
Carpenter is tied with nine others for the second-most, behind Billy Herman, who had 14 in the Chicago Cubs’ first 19 contests of the 1936 season. Herman finished with 57 two-base hits that season, tied for 10th– most all time.
Most doubles through 19 games, season, MLB
| Player | Year | G | 2B | Tm |
| Billy Herman | 1936 | 10 | 14 | CHC |
| Matt Carpenter | 2015 | 10 | 12 | STL |
| Torii Hunter | 2007 | 10 | 12 | MIN |
| Troy Glaus | 1999 | 9 | 12 | ANA |
| Ed Sprague | 1997 | 11 | 12 | TOR |
| George Brett | 1983 | 10 | 12 | KC |
| George Kell | 1953 | 11 | 12 | BOS |
| Paul Waner | 1932 | 11 | 12 | PIT |
| George Burns | 1926 | 11 | 12 | CLE |
| Frankie Frisch | 1926 | 9 | 12 | NYG |
Of course, Carpenter’s current rate of hitting doubles cannot be sustained over the entire season or he would set a new MLB record with 102. The single-season total of 67 has been the MLB record since Earl Webb logged that amount for the 1931 Boston Red Sox.
Carpenter’s career high-water point of 55 doubles in 2013 is the second-best single season in team history behind Joe Medwick. Ducky had 56 in his Triple Crown season of 1937.
Carpenter dropped to 33 two-base hits last season, but is already over a third of the way there with over 140 games remaining in 2015.
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