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- Updated: September 19, 2016
NEW YORK — Twins second baseman Brian Dozier is having the offensive season of a lifetime. His fifth-inning single in Sunday’s 3-2 loss to the Mets at Citi Field extended his hitting streak to 22 games in a row.
Dozier’s next homer will be his 40th of the season as a second baseman and will set the American League record for that position. The overall mark at the second sack is 42, set by Rogers Hornsby for the Cardinals in 1922 and matched by Davey Johnson for the Braves in ’73.
Yet the backdrop is that the Twins were swept by the Mets in their three-game weekend series and lost their 95th game on Sunday.
“It doesn’t really sit very well, I can tell you that,” the 29-year-old Dozier said about the hitting streak. “It is what it is. I couldn’t care less, to be honest with you. We didn’t get enough of them today. So that’s pretty much it.”
An eighth-round pick by the Twins in the 2009 Draft, Dozier is finishing his fifth Major League season. He’s a .248 lifetime hitter. His stats, though, have been building over the …
