Don't look now, but Adolis Garcia is heating up again for Rangers

The position player most likely to be in the All-Star Game has four homers in six games.

Credit: Kelly Gavin/Texas Rangers

Adolis Garcia could do no wrong in May — well, almost no wrong — when he was the American League Rookie of the Month and the runner-up as AL Player of the Month.

He hit for average and power, was hell on teams the later games went, and he confirmed that he is a capable center fielder with an arm that rivals that of Texas Rangers teammate/right fielder Joey Gallo.

Then, June came. So did adjustments from the league. There was a power outage, no homers and only two doubles in the first 13 games of the month.

That was good — and good probably isn’t the right word there — for a .525 OPS.

Yikes.

Garcia, though, is clearing fences again on the Rangers’ current homestand. He has gone deep four times in six games, including two Wednesday in the Rangers’ 5-3 victory over the Oakland A’s.

OPS? 1.125.

That’ll do. That’ll do.

“Everybody goes through hard times,” Garcia said. “It’s a hard game and a long season. I just try to stay focused on the mental part and try to stay positive all the time and keep working hard.”

In a season that isn’t about winning but is about player development, seeing Garcia make adjustments against a high-caliber team is, well, a nice development.

“It’s not surprising,” manager Chris Woodward said. “You see the talent that he has, but just the conversations that you have with him and that I see him have with our hitting coaches and the things he talks about.”

(And don’t sleep on Gallo, whose OPS hit .800 Wednesday before sliding back to .799.)