There is never a good time to have a bad game. Never a good time to have your first bad game of the season. But everybody has a bad day eventually. David Robinson is no different. After being a godsend to this tattered Rangers bullpen, he was due a bad one. His came last night. And it was awful.

This was a game the Rangers should have won, and a game they usually do. After the Rangers took a 3-2 lead in the top of the seventh, Jose Leclerc gave up a leadoff single in the bottom of the seventh, got two outs, and was lifted for the usually reliable Robertson.

By time the inning ended, the woeful Rockies had scored six runs and put the game away 8-3, letting the Rockies win their first series of the year, and giving them their first three-game winning streak of the year.

David Robertson committed the cardinal sin of being human in a season where he has been anything but. It happens.

After losing the first two in Denver, though, the Rangers are still in first place. It just doesn’t seem like it.

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