DENVER — Royce Lewis stood in front of his locker in the Coors Field visiting clubhouse on Saturday after being pinch hit for the night before. He just wanted to get back to the “Royce of old,” he said, noting that when he watched video of himself, it didn’t look like the swing he was accustomed to seeing.
Lewis was not in the lineup on Saturday, but when he returned on Sunday, he did so with an exclamation point. Lewis, who entered the day with just two home runs on the season, doubled that on Sunday, blasting a pair of longballs in the Twins’ 7-1 win over the Colorado Rockies.
The third baseman hit a solo home run to center field in the fourth inning, blasting a slider out 451 feet. He did it again in the eighth, sending a first-pitch slider out to left-center field, raising his left arm up in the air after he trotted past first base before continuing on with a variety of celebrations as he rounded the bases.
It was his first career multi-home run game in the regular season. He also accomplished the feat in the 2023 playoffs.
That was one of four home runs on the day for the Twins — Matt Wallner and Harrison Bader also left the park, and Willi Castro also hit a Little League home run — a triple combined with a scoring error that allowed the utilityman to score — in the win.
It all came in a day where Joe Ryan was, yet again, nearly untouchable.
The All-Star starter picked up where he left off in the first half of the season, throwing seven innings of one-run ball. The only blemish on his day was a solo home run to Mickey Moniak in the third, at which point the Twins had already jumped out to a three-run lead. Ryan struck out 11 Rockies, matching a season high.
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