MILWAUKEE -- Royce Lewis is making every swing count right now, and the Twins are getting the payoff at exactly the right moment.
Lewis entered Sunday’s rubber match against the Brewers with a career-best 13-game hitting streak, the longest active run in the Majors and the longest by a Twins player since Brooks Lee hit safely in 19 straight games in 2025. Over that stretch, Lewis has been locked in: .380 batting average (19-for-50), five doubles, a triple, three home runs and 11 RBIs. He’s slugging .700 with a 1.104 OPS, and since July 25 his average exit velocity of 96.0 mph leads all Major League hitters with at least 30 plate appearances.
Manager Derek Shelton pointed to the way Lewis is attacking the ball.
“The aggressiveness of his swings,” Shelton said. “He’s taken really confident, aggressive swings. When you’re feeling good at the plate, those are the swings you take, and that’s what we’re seeing.”
The results have shown up all week. Lewis had two hits and scored twice in Friday’s 8-6 comeback win, then kept the streak alive Saturday with a two-out, two-run double in the second inning of a 4-3 loss. He has now reached safely via hit or walk in 19 straight games and carries a 1.304 OPS in August.
“He continues to have really good swings, and he’s been a catapult for our offense recently,” Shelton said Saturday night.
With Ryan Jeffers out of the lineup Sunday, the Twins bumped Lewis up one spot to second in the order, giving one of their hottest bats an extra trip to the plate against Brewers right-hander Jacob Misiorowski.
“I wouldn’t overthink the fact that he goes from three to two,” Shelton said. “It’s just the situation -- Jeffers isn’t in there, and he’s [Lewis] having good at-bats.”
Misiorowski brings a serious test to the series finale, and Shelton made clear the Twins know it.
“He’s one of the best pitchers in the game,” Shelton said. “It’s a good challenge. But he has to go out and execute pitches, and we have to execute our game plan.”
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