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Dozier runs homer total to 38 with 3 in defeat
- Updated: September 5, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS — With three more homers against the Royals in Monday’s 11-5 loss, Brian Dozier is in some exclusive company as he became only the second Twins player to hit more than 35 homers in a season, joining Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew.
Dozier connected on a solo homer in the first off Royals right-hander Ian Kennedy before adding a go-ahead two-run shot in the third on the 10th pitch of his at-bat. His third came in the eighth inning, a solo shot hit to the third deck to left off reliever Brooks Pounders. It gave him 38 homers, which is the second most in baseball behind only Baltimore’s Mark Trumbo, who has 41. He’s the first Twins player to reach 38 homers since Killebrew hit 41 in 1970.
His three homers were also crushed, as they went a combined 1,290 feet, per Statcast™. It’s the longest combined distance for a three-homer game this season, and the second-longest of the Statcast™ era, trailing only Alex Rodriguez’s 1,324 feet of homers on July 25, 2015. But it came in yet another loss, and Dozier downplayed his accomplishment.
“It would be a lot better if we were on the winning side of …
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