MINNEAPOLIS — Royce Lewis bent low to reach for a seventh-inning slider, raising his bat with confidence and joy as soon as he connected.

Lewis hopped along the first-base line as he let out a celebratory yell at his Minnesota Twins teammates in the dugout, before pivoting to finish the jog around the diamond following the pinch-hit, three-run drive that traveled 402 feet into the left-field seats for his 13th homer of the season.

Lewis and the Twins have been frustratingly short on those shout-worthy moments in 2025. It's only natural, then, that the 26-year-old third baseman was pumped up by that big hit that gave the Twins some late insurance in a 6-2 victory over Cleveland on Sunday that salvaged another unflattering series and afforded them the opportunity to relish the spoiler ro

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