Anthony Rizzo went 3-for-5 today. That's the same number of hits as the Rockies have against the Cardinals in the last two days.
It's his fifth three-hit game in his last 11 and sixth in his last 15, along with a pair of two-hit games. He's raised his average in that span from .173 to .288, and touched .290 before grounding out in the ninth. That's more like a second-week-of-April boost than a second-week-of-May boost.
Meanwhile, his home run pace has just about ground to a halt. He has one since April 26th, but over the long haul I'd take a .448 average and an 11-homer pace over a .173 and 47-homer pace.
That Cashner-for-Rizzo trade with the Padres is looking more and more like it might one day rank up with the Jenkins and Sandberg trades. Stay tuned.
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