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CarGo’s pinch-hit double runs hit streak to 18
- Updated: August 12, 2016
ARLINGTON — Rockies All-Star Carlos Gonzalez needed to heal. He didn’t need batting practice.
Gonzalez suffered a left ankle sprain on Aug. 3, and since inflammation forced him to be removed from a game Monday he hadn’t done anything but hit off a tee. The two times he attempted to play, he didn’t do any pregame hitting.
But on his first swing Thursday afternoon, on a 97-mph fastball from Rangers reliever Matt Bush, Gonzalez delivered a pinch-hit three-run double in the eighth inning to give the Rockies a 12-9 victory and end a four-game losing streak.
“Everybody’s giving me a hard time because I haven’t seen a pitch, not even in BP,” Gonzalez said. “I hit off the tee yesterday a little bit and I hit off the tee today. Then I jumped in there and Bush threw 97 first pitch [for a ball] and I said, ‘OK, wake-up call right now.”
On the next pitch, Gonzalez helped put an end to the Rockies’ recent nightmares of late losses by lining his double into the left-center-field gap.
Gonzalez’s double, which lifted his RBI total to 79, ran his career-best single-season hit streak to 18 games. Gonzalez had a 21-game hitting streak …
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