DENVER -- Twice in four days, Colorado closer Carlos Estevez has blown a two-run lead in the ninth inning.Elvis Andrus hit a two-run single off Estevez, Mitch Moreland delivered a tiebreaking double and the Texas Rangers scored three times in the ninth to beat the Rockies 4-3 on Monday night.You just have to keep grinding, Estevez said. Whatever youve been through, its gone. It happened today? OK, tomorrow is a new day. Youve just got to turn the page. Thats it.The AL West leaders pulled off a double steal before Andrus single tied it 3-all. Moreland sent Andrus home with a double off Boone Logan before getting thrown out stretching at third.Estevez (2-7) was handed his fifth blown save this season. He gave up four runs in the ninth inning of a 5-3 loss to Miami on Friday.In the aftermath of this one, Colorado manager Walt Weiss wouldnt talk about the closers job going forward.Im not going to talk about roles after the game, he said.Tyler Anderson allowed two hits in seven innings for Colorado.Nolan Arenado homered for the third time in two days and drove in two runs for the Rockies. David Dahl had a pinch-hit single in the ninth to extend his hitting streak to 14 games.Rockies slugger Carlos Gonzalez exited in the second with left ankle inflammation. Gonzalez sat out two games last week after spraining his ankle on a groundout in Wednesdays 12-2 win over the Dodgers.During the warmup, I started feeling a little tight, he said. When I was running down the line, I felt really bad.Colorado has lost four of five.Texas, which has won three straight and eight of 11, improved to 4-3 on its eight-game road trip. The teams conclude a two-game series in Colorado on Tuesday before heading to Texas to begin another two-game set Wednesday.Cole Hamels yielded two runs in six innings for Texas. He avoided losing back-to-back starts for the first time since 2014 thanks to the Rangers late rally. The left-hander struck out six and walked one.Anderson gave up one hit through six scoreless innings before Adrian Beltre homered to center field on his first pitch of the seventh, cutting Colorados lead to 2-1. Anderson retired the next three batters, and Adam Ottavino stranded runners at the corners with a strikeout of Jonathan Lucroy in the eighth to extend his scoreless streak to 26 1/3 innings.Tyler was great once again, Weiss said. Always tough when you lose games late, no question.Charlie Blackmon had an RBI single in the third. Arenado homered in the fourth and hit an RBI single in the eighth off winner Keone Kela (3-1).Arenado leads the National League in home runs (30) and RBI (89).NEXT UP FOR 3,000?After Ichiro Suzuki became the 30th member of the 3,000-hit club on Sunday at Coors Field, the 37-year-old Beltre is next on the active list with 2,880 and counting.TRAINERS ROOMRangers: DH/OF Carlos Beltran was out of the starting lineup for the second consecutive day with a bruised left quadriceps. The 39-year-old slugger walked as a pinch-hitter in the eighth.Rockies: OF Gerardo Parra pinch-hit for Gonzalez in the second and stayed in the game. Parra (ankle) came off the 15-day disabled list Sunday.UP NEXTRangers: RHP A.J. Griffin (5-1, 4.05 ERA) is 2-0 with a 3.31 ERA in his last three starts. The Rangers are 10-4 in his 14 starts.Rockies: RHP Tyler Chatwood has gone 2-1 over his last three starts, allowing five runs in 18 innings. Hes also walked 15 batters, though. 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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Nathan Adrian will have to be West Virginias best player if the Mountaineers are going to make a deep March Madness run this season.So far, so good.Adrian had 15 points and 14 rebounds for his first career double-double, helping No. 19 West Virginia cruise past Mississippi Valley State 107-66 on Monday night.Nate just cant get hurt, West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said. I dont know what wed do without him. We run everything through him. You watch him and then you watch everybody else, it looks like everybody else has their feet in cement. He wants to win, he wants to do things right.Adrian set a career high for rebounds in this one, and his point total was his highest since getting 16 on Dec. 29, 2013 against William & Mary.Im just listening to coach and what he has to teach me and doing the best I can, the 6-foot-9 forward said. I dont expect to be the leading scorer on the team. It doesnt matter who does. Whoever can score points to help us win the game.The Mountaineers (2-0) were sluggish at first, but after four lead changes in the first two minutes, Adrian and Jevon Carter fueled a 17-0 run that put West Virginia ahead 21-5 at the first media timeout.West Virginia shot 72.7 percent from the free-throw line, a spike from when they made 58.6 percent in their game against Mount St. Marys last Friday. The Mountaineers also scored 34 points off of 26 turnovers Monday.Teyvon Myers and Lamont West scored 12 points for West Virginia, and Carter and Esa Ahmad had 10.For the second straight game, Daxter Miles, Jr. did not see any time on the court.Marcus Romain had 13 points for the Delta Devils (0-2). Its his eleventh straight game in double figures.Hiim scoring in double figures is a given, Mississippi Valley State coach Andre Payne said.dddddddddddd. What were concerned about with him is his turnovers. Its two bad games back to back where hes had six turnovers and thats where we got to get him, from turning the ball over so much, because if youre going to have the ball in your hand that much, you got to make good decisions.POLL IMPLICATIONSWest Virginia went up one spot in the AP Top 25 on Monday due to Connecticuts loss to Wagner on Friday. If the Mountaineers can handle New Hampshire on Sunday, they will likely remain at 19 or move up a spot or two depending on what happens above.THE BIG TWELVEA dozen players scored for the Mountaineers, and nine of them got more than 10 minutes on the court. Huggins is showing, once again, how deep West Virginia can be.PRESS VIRGINIAIn the first 20 minutes, the Mountaineers took advantage of the Delta Devils miscues by scoring 26 points off 18 turnovers. They continued that dominance in the second half with another eight points off eight turnovers.BIG PICTUREMississippi Valley State: After losses to two Power 5 schools, the Delta Devils continue their 15-game season-opening road trip which includes stops at No. 13 Michigan State, No. 6 Indiana, No. 14 Gonzaga and No. 20 Iowa State.West Virginia: The Mountaineers start the NIT Season Tip-Off on campus against New Hampshire before going to Brooklyn, New York to face Illinois on Thanksgiving Day.UP NEXTMississippi Valley State plays at Kent State on Wednesday.West Virginia hosts New Hampshire on Sunday. ' ' '
