Lewis has been really, really good at Target Field – and that's where the next six games will be played.
Royce Lewis is clearly one of the most dangerous hitters in the game, but maybe his hot start after returning from a two-month quad injury made him a little overconfident.
"I pride myself, I told , 'Hey, I don't do that slump thing,'". "That's not a real thing for me. I understand that that's a thing, baseball, you're going to go into a slump or whatever, but for me, I don't have that mindset. It's a new day." Lewis might've cursed himself with that claim because he's currently mired in a 2-for-25 slump over his last six games. He had two hits June 27 against the Diamondbacks while the other five games during the slump were all 0-for-4 performances.
Lewis was slashing .371/.437/.903 entering play June 23. Since then, his season-long numbers have dipped to .287/.351/.678 . An 84-point drop in batting average and a 225-point decrease in slugging percentage in the span of a week certainly qualifies as "that slump thing." Minnesota was off Monday and now Lewis gets to play the next six games at Target Field, where he has obliterated baseballs to the slashing tune of .389/.476/.917 with six of his 10 homers on the season. He's also walked six times compared to just four strikeouts in home games.
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