Description: EDOUARD JULIEN jumpstarts Twins' five-homer surge in sweep of White Sox MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins never really need any excuse to mess with EDOUARD JULIEN, who is OFTEN THE BUTT OF JOKES in the clubhouse. But manager Rocco Baldelli just decided to stir the pot a bit earlier this week, when he moved Julien down a slot from his customary leadoff position, just to see if some change might help him break out of his slump.“We’ll put Eddy in the blender a little bit and shake him up, and move him around,” Baldelli said at the time.Whatever it is, it looks like it’s working.Blended Eddy, or whatever he is these days, has locked in since then, peppering three homers over the Target Field walls this series, including a pair of solo shots in Thursday afternoon’s WIN over the White Sox that helped secure a much-needed four-game sweep that brought Minnesota (11-13) all the way back to within two games of .500.“It's going to be a good flight to L.A., right?” Julien said as the team opens a three-game road set with the Angels on Friday. “Just, everybody's hit the ball, pretty much, this week. It's going to be good vibes on the flight, and I think we needed that for our mental [state].”It was Julien’s homer to right field in the sixth that finally broke the seal against White Sox starter Michael Soroka, who hadn’t been getting any swings and misses, but had skirted around damage all game. Jeffers immediately erased the early deficit by going back-to-back with Julien to prime the Twins’ go-ahead, three-run frame.Julien crushed his team-leading seventh homer an inning later, Minnesota went back-to-back again for insurance runs from Carlos Santana and Jose Miranda, and that was that, as the club took care of business against a deeply struggling White Sox team behind its season-high five long balls.“That's a full clubhouse of big league baseball players and we won four games,” Ryan Jeffers said. “We could have easily come in here and not shown up, and lost some of these games. To be the team we want to be, you've got to beat the teams you're supposed to beat. We did a good job of that.”In the eternal wisdom of Rocco’s father, Dan Baldelli, it might help to just “slap ‘em around a bit” to wake someone up -- though the skipper obviously isn’t going to take that literally. He didn’t consult with Julien before bumping the second baseman down a slot -- and Julien cited the eternal wisdom of former teammate Joey Gallo in noting he’d rather hit second anyway. ORDER BEFORE 2 PM CENTRAL - SAME DAY SHIPPING TWINS JULY 2024
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Sport: Baseball
Player: EDOUARD JULIEN
Year: 2024
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Team: Chicago White Sox
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Team-Baseball: Minnesota Twins