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CarGo looks like old self in two-hit game

DENVER -- Carlos Gonzalez came out for early batting practice on Friday afternoon, intent on discovering his proper swing and finding his way out of the April wilderness.

He was again hitting sixth in the Rockies' lineup, something he did Wednesday for the first time since Sept. 17, 2012. Manager Walt Weiss gave Gonzalez a breather Thursday -- he entered that game against the Padres on a double-switch in the eighth and struck out in the bottom of that inning.

The left-handed-hitting Gonzalez said the single-minded purpose of his early work was to "just drive it to the other side, use the whole field.