Bruce Bochy on Marcus Semien heating up, offensive improvements, All-Star candidates

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The Rangers are on a 3-game winning streak AND scored a season-high 16 runs against the Twins last night. Manager Bruce Bochy joined the K&C Masterpiece to talk about their offensive outburst, how Marcus Semien might finally be out of his early slump, which players on the team deserve All-Star consideration, and more!

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00:00but i continue to think of marcus simeon as being one of the keys to making hitting contagious i

00:21know the logic you laid out is it could really be anybody but how big is it that marcus has

00:27stepped up and obviously been tremendous the last week and a half well he's one of your guys

00:33marcus is so revered in that clubhouse and and you know just respected and what he's done in the game

00:41and so yeah when when uh you know he gets it going sure i i think it means a lot to the guys because

00:48they they know we need them we all know that uh he and cory uh you know they're they're really the

00:55ones that you count on to you know to make this work um i mean when you look at our lineup and i

01:03talked about it yesterday uh and i'm getting off marcus here for for a little bit but uh even when

01:09he was hitting an eight hole you know they're all trying to you know find their timing at times uh

01:15which uh you know we're we saw with langford it's good to see him break out yesterday but

01:20you know to have uh garcia in the eight hole and uh and young down there anyhow that's not where they

01:27normally hit but uh you know this is a a tough lineup and i said i'm gonna have some you know as

01:33far as a pitcher trying to get through i'm gonna have some tough uh calls here on who hits where if

01:39all this gets going like we think it will i don't know who hits where

01:43you

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