Texas Rangers outfielder Kole Calhoun entered Thursday’s recreation with the Houston Astros coming off an unbelievable homestand, significantly in opposition to the Los Angeles Angels.
The Rangers ended that collection on Wednesday evening by sweeping the Angels, giving the Rangers their first three-game collection sweep this season.
Calhoun was an enormous a part of not simply that sweep however your complete homestand, throughout which the Rangers went 6-3 and climbed to 2 video games beneath .500.
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How good was it? Let’s break it down:
Calhoun hit .444 throughout the nine-game homestand. That pairs effectively together with his month of May, which incorporates 14 video games — 341/.412/.773/1.185. His OPS throughout the homestand was 1.537.
Calhoun had seven extra-base hits within the homestand, however the residence runs stood out. He had 4 residence runs within the closing 4 video games, which included a two-home run recreation within the collection finale in opposition to Boston on Sunday — the eighth multi-home run recreation of his profession.
But Calhoun has been constructing to this since he went with no residence run for the season’s first 23 video games. He’s posted 5 residence runs in his final 11 video games, which is tied for the MLB lead since May 8.
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He scored seven runs however he additionally posted 11 RBI within the homestand. Attached to that may be a five-game streak with a minimum of one RBI, which is the third-longest streak of Calhoun’s profession. He’s had streaks of eight and 6.
Just within the month of May, Calhoun is amongst American League leaders in residence runs (tied for seventh with 5), extra-base hits (tied for eighth with eight), complete bases (tied for ninth with 34), and RBI (tied for tenth with 12).
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Now that Calhoun is on the street and the Rangers are going through the Astros, his manufacturing might preserve rolling. Why?
Calhoun has performed 14 video games at Minute Maid Park for the reason that begin of 2019. His hitting slash is .345/.393/.764/1.157, and has seven residence runs and 13 RBI. The solely participant with extra residence runs at Minute Maid Park in that very same span doesn’t play baseball anymore — former Mariners infielder Kyle Seager, who occurs to be the brother of present Rangers shortstop Corey Seager.
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