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It's a good problem to have for a coach.

Some athletes take the Hollywood approach of "What's my motivation?" to getting up for games and practices.

There are others who tend to have the other issue 鈥� going too hard, too often.

Former Lobo hoops coach Richard Pitino often had to answer as to how he approached reining in the on-court emotions of his highly volatile star point guard Jaelen House.

"There's an expression, I'd rather tone down a Bronco than warm up a corpse," Pitino said in a December 2021 news conference. "With Jaelen, you don't ever need to warm him up, wake him up or get him going. But sometimes, he needs to slow down and calm down."

Effort was never the question.

Across the street at Isotopes Park, there is a similar storyline playing out with Cole Carrigg, ranked the No. 6 prospect in the Colorado Rockies organization according to MLB Pipeline.

"Every night he can take over a game," Chris Forbes, Rockies Senior Director of Player Development, told the Journal earlier this season of Carrigg, the second-round draft pick of the Rockies in 2023. "He's got that ability in there. Whether it's his play defensively 鈥� he's one of our best defenders for me in the system, and he鈥檚 still got work to do, especially in center field, which to me, is where he profiles best. ...

"A lot of his track is going to be kind of controlling his zone, eliminate chasing. He's a very aggressive kid by nature. He's aggressive on the base paths. Aggressive in center field. He's just aggressive. And that's going to be key to not only being able to maintain the top-of-the-order spot on a big league lineup, but he's really going to have to be able to hone into recognizing how they're pitching and what they're doing.

"But it's a fine line because he is a wild horse and you don't want to tame him too much."

For Carrigg, the controlled aggression of his 2026 campaign has thus far produced lights-out numbers:

• .378 batting average (1st in Pacific Coast League)

• 45 hits (2nd PCL)

• 25 RBIs (3rd PCL)

• 29 runs (4th PCL)

• 4 triples (1st PCL)

• 19 stolen bases (1st PCL 鈥� only two other players in the entire league have stolen more than eight bases)

"I've definitely played the game at 100% my whole life, and just knowing when to take that down a notch a little bit and control myself a bit more 鈥� there's definitely some timely stuff on the base paths that I need to ... clean up," Carrigg said last week. "But yeah, it's just been about knowing when's the right time to do certain things and when to be patient."

Trivia time!

• Question: The Isotopes scored 26 runs against El Paso on Friday night and 19 more on Saturday night, a two-game franchise record of 45 runs.

  What is the next most runs scored in a two-game span in franchise history?

• Answer: See below...

Know the foe

The Isotopes hit the road for a six-game Pacific Coast League series at Constellation Field in Sugar Land, Texas, Tuesday through Sunday.

• Isotopes, Triple-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, 18-15 overall, 3rd place PCL

• Sugar Land Space Space Cowboys , Triple-A affiliate of the Houston Astros, 17-16 overall, t-4th place PCL

Three up, three down

Some things that have been looking good lately for the 'Topes, some not so good.

Looking good:

1. After this past week's runfest, the Isotopes still lead the PCL in runs scored with 231.

2. OF Sterlin Thompson had a career game this past Friday against El Paso. The 2022 first-round draft pick of the Rockies went 5-for-5 with two doubles, a homer, four RBIs and two walks, becoming the first Triple-A player to reach base seven times since 2021 and the first Isotopes player to do so since 2005.

3. Just 33 games into their 150-game season, the Isotopes have strung together three 3-game win streaks. In the entirety of the 2025 season, they had just five such win streaks.

Look away:

1. After last week's runfest, which was a two-way street, the Isotopes are now third in the PCL for most runs allowed with 211.

2. 1B/OF Charlie Condon is 5-for-40 (.125) over his last 10 games and has only one extra-base hit in 59 plate appearances at home this season. The power hitter is slugging just .255 at in 13 games at home this season.

3. Albuquerque pitchers have allowed nine or more runs in 10 of their first 33 games. They've allowed double-digit runs in eight of their 31 games that have gone a regular nine innings or more 鈥� meaning opposing teams are getting to 10 or more runs a little better than once every four nine-inning games they play.

Fast food

Salsa is getting spicy and running away with this year's chile race competition. And, frankly, I don't like it. Team Taco has seen better days.

2026 Season Standings (17 races):

• 9 wins 鈥� Salsa Jar

• 3 wins 鈥� Red Chile

• 3 wins 鈥� Green Chile

• 2 wins 鈥� Taco

What are they doing?

Here's a check in on some (not all) of the fun promos the "other guys" are doing this season when the Isotopes are in town.

In Sugar land, fans are getting a ton of booze specials early in the week and lots of cool giveaways later in the week.

• Tuesday: Muffin the Bat Dog! If that's not enough, it's a you problem. But in case you need more, Sugar Land is also dropping the $5 frozen alcohol drinks for the game.

• Wednesday: Day baseball, dollar dogs and bring your dog to the park day (for free, not a dollar).

• Thursday: "Thirsty Thursdays" includes beer discounts.

• Friday: Baseball/cowboy hat giveaway and postgame fireworks.

• Saturday: Pink "ponytail cap" giveaway and a Boy Band Tribute Night with postgame concert featuring "Larger than Life," which describes itself on its website as "the No. 1 boyband experience in the country."

• Sunday: Mother鈥檚 Day jersey giveaway and the return of Muffin the Bat Dog!

Trivia answer

Thirty five.

Yes, after last Friday/Saturday鈥檚 45-run onslaught by the Isotopes, the next highest two-game run total for Albuquerque鈥檚 Triple-A franchise was 35 runs scored April 20-21, 2019, against the Tacoma Rainiers (12-4 win and a 23-2 win).

A tip of the hat to Isotopes media guru Forest Stulting for the assist.

Reach Geoff Grammer at ggrammer@abqjournal.com or follow him on Twitter (X) .