Eleven runs on Monday night and 15 more on Tuesday night add up to 26 runs in two games against Detroit at Target Field.
The Minnesota Twins spent most of August searching for big hits, and against the Tigers they found them all at once.
Royce Lewis was in the middle of Tuesday's 15-2 win with a three-run homer in a 10-run sixth, and afterward he explained why the lineup looks like itself again.
"Our lineup was No. 1 in baseball for a long time," Lewis told MLB.com. "It's hard to stay No. 1 no matter what you're doing stats-wise in this league and in this game, so it comes in waves."
Lewis added that the team had been in a downward wave together and that everyone is starting to get hot for the final stretch.
Kody Clemens answered a Detroit run with a solo homer in the first, and the game stayed tied until the fifth, when Walker Jenkins reached on a fielder's choice that turned into two runs on a throwing error by catcher Dillon Dingler and Luke Keaschall doubled in another to make it 4-1.
Then came the sixth, when the game stopped being close.
Lewis hit his 14th home run of the season off Troy Melton, Keaschall singled in a run, Brooks Lee added a sacrifice fly, Ryan Jeffers hit a three-run homer, and Kaelen Culpepper singled home two more.
It added up to 10 runs on eight hits.
Jeffers now has 13 home runs this season after hitting three in the two games, and Connor Prielipp earned the win with five scoreless innings in relief of Andrew Morris.
The Twins went 10-17 in August, mostly because the offense went cold.
Two blowouts against a Tigers team that has lost three straight do not erase a month, but they show this group can still hit, even with Byron Buxton on the injured list with a right hip problem .
Jenkins was called up last Friday and hit his first big league homer on Monday, and his debut against the White Sox showed that he is not overwhelmed.
Culpepper drove in three on Tuesday and is hitting .320 since arriving in August.
Minnesota is 67-72, three and a half games behind Cleveland for the third American League wild card spot and six and a half behind the White Sox in the Central with 23 games to play.
That is a long shot, but the schedule gives them a direct path, since the series finale against Detroit comes Wednesday night at Target Field with Dean Kremer facing Drew Anderson, and then they head to Chicago for three games against the White Sox from Friday through Sunday.
Joe Ryan has also started a rehab assignment with St. Paul, the first real step toward getting him back for a thin rotation.
Beating up on the Tigers at home is the easy part, though, since the Twins are 29-39 on the road, and if this offense carries the same energy into Rate Field, the wild card talk becomes real.
If it does not, the last two nights were two easy wins against a bad team.
