Minnesota Twins’ slugger Royce Lewis hit a historic home run on Wednesday as the team put up an offensive explosion against the Colorado Rockies.

At the time of this posting, the Twins lead the Rockies 17-8 after pounding out 24 hits. Lewis is 3-for-5 with the home run, three runs scored and two RBI.

With the homer, Lewis made multiple instances of both team and league history.

First, according to Sarah Langs of MLB.com:

Royce Lewis’ 22 HR are 2 more than any other player in Twins/Senators history in his first 80 career games. today is his 79th

only player with more HR in his first 80 games with the franchise, at any point in a career: Nelson Cruz, 26

And this one, per @CodifyBaseball:

There are only 15 players in history to hit at least 22 home runs in their first 79 MLB games and Royce Lewis is one of them.

The 25-year-old slugger is a former top prospect who has dealt with plenty of injuries over his career already, but when he’s healthy, he is one of the most impactful power hitters in the game.

Lewis hit 15 homers in just 58 games in 2023 and also hit four home runs in six playoff games last year. He has six home runs in just nine games this year. He’s missed most of the season with a leg injury suffered on Opening Day.

Assuming the Twins hold onto this lead, they’ll move to 36-32 on the year, which is good enough for third in the American League Central.

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DULUTH — First Lady Jill Biden will visit Duluth this week to help launch the Seniors For Biden-Harris organization in Minnesota.

Her trip to Minnesota is intended to energize older voters in what has become a battleground state this presidential election.

While recent polling in Minnesota has put Biden and former President Donald Trump in a

statistical dead-heat,

a March 2024 Quinnipiac poll showed Biden leading Trump by 8 points nationally among those 65 and older.

“To galvanize this critical voting block in Minnesota, the Biden-Harris campaign is hosting a variety of events with local leaders and seniors to drive home the stakes of the 2024 election, including a campaign event with First Lady Jill Biden in Duluth on Thursday,” Caroline Stonecipher, deputy states communications director for the 2024 Biden-Harris campaign wrote in an email.

The Biden-Harris campaign plans to use the event to contrast the current administration’s legislative and executive successes with what Trump has said publicly.

Specifically, Stonecipher points to Democrats reducing the

cost of prescription drugs

, capping the price of

insulin at $35 for seniors

and strengthening

federal support for Social Security and Medicare

.

The campaign also cited comments Trump made regarding desires to make

cuts to Medicare and Social Security

and

repeal the Affordable Care Act

as an attack on Minnesota’s seniors.

The first lady’s visit comes about a month after

Trump attended a state GOP fundraising event in St. Paul

.

The decision to hold the event in Duluth, the highest population center in northeastern Minnesota, is telling. Once a Democrat stronghold, Republicans have steadily taken over most of the region over the last two decades.

If the state’s GOP can capture a state legislative seat left this year by Rep. Dave Lislegard, DFL-Aurora,

only one Democrat officeholder, Sen. Grant Hauschild, DFL-Hermantown, will be left in the Iron Range

.