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CarGo shows old form in snapping HR drought
- Updated: May 15, 2016
DENVER — Carlos Gonzalez was certain his slump and lack of power would end. He never lost faith. And why should he, being a two-time All-Star and Silver Slugger Award winner and a former National League batting champion?
On Sunday, Gonzalez delivered two big hits in the Rockies’ 4-3 comeback win that enabled them to sweep a three-game series with the Mets and win four straight games for the first time since July 9-12, 2014.
Dropped from the third to the fifth spot in the lineup, Gonzalez lined a double to break a string of 13 straight hitless at-bats. True, the ball sailed over the head of left fielder Michael Conforto, but Gonzalez made hard contact.
In the fourth, he drew a two-out walk from Jacob deGrom, a telling at-bat for Rockies manager Walt Weiss.
“The walk that he took, I thought was one of …
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