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- Updated: August 3, 2016
CLEVELAND — Through the first three months of the season, Minnesota’s offense was scuffling, as the Twins entered July having scored the fourth-fewest runs in the Majors and had a 25-53 record that was the worst in the big leagues.
But they’ve turned it around since then, scoring 166 runs to lead the Majors, while also going 17-11, which is the game’s second-best record over that span. The offensive surge in July has carried over into the new month, as the Twins followed Monday’s 12-5 win over the Indians with another strong showing offensively in a 10-6 victory on Tuesday at Progressive Field.
Minnesota racked up nine extra-base hits with seven players getting in on the action, giving the club 19 over its last two games to set a franchise record. And it came on a night in which right-hander Carlos Carrasco started, and he hadn’t allowed more than four extra-base hits or four runs in a game this year. But the Twins tagged him for a career-worst eight runs and seven extra-base hits a night after knocking Danny Salazar out of the game following two-plus innings.
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