Official Site of the Twins · Sep 1, 2016
With HR drought over, Kepler eyes strong finish
Max Kepler knots the game at 1 with a home run off Corey Kluber to begin the top of the 3rd inningCLEVELAND -- When Brian Dozier and Max Kepler both homered on Aug. 2, it gave Kepler his 15th homer of the year and he trailed Dozier by just five homers on the season.
Kepler was coming off a three-homer game and was flashing unexpected power in a strong start to his rookie season. But since then, Kepler fell into a month-long slump, while Dozier had an August for the ages. They both homered again in Cleveland on Wednesday, but it ended with a familiar result in an 8-4 loss that was the Twins' 13th in a row, which is one shy of the franchise record set in 1982.