Coco Crisp continues upsurge with third career slam

Coco Crisp is locked in at the plate with seven RBI and seven runs scored in last four games.Coco Crisp has been around long enough to know that you can’t win them all.

At the same time he didn’t want to see Sunday’s game get away, not after Sonny Gray had pitched well for six innings, handing a 6-2 lead to the bullpen. As it happened, the pen wasn’t up to the task.

Crisp was invested in this game. His seventh homer of the year and his third career grand slam seemed to have turned the game around in the fourth inning. As the ball sailed over the left field wall, Crisp pumped his right arm, fist clenched, to the sky.

He was feeling it.

A couple of hours later Crisp had to watch from center as…