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Brandon Lowe - Homers in winLowe went 2-for-3 with a solo home run and a single in Saturday's 11-4 win over the Twins.

ImpactLowe became the sixth different Ray to homer off the Twins on Saturday, smacking his 32nd home run of the year off Ian Gibaut in the fourth inning. If the posterchild for Tampa Bay's swing-for-the-fences philosophy is Mike Zunino, Lowe is right behind him. The utilityman is hitting just .231 but is tied with Jose Ramirez and Matt Olson for seventh in all of baseball in long balls.

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Nelson Cruz - Homers in winCruz went 1-for-4 with a home run, a walk and two runs scored in Saturday's 11-4 win over the Twins.

ImpactCruz enacted some revenge on his former team Saturday when he took Ian Gibaut deep in the fourth inning. The homer marked Cruz's eighth since making the move to Tampa Bay in late July. However, his batting average has fallen off a cliff. At the conclusion of the 41-year-old's final game as a Twin, he was hitting .294. Since joining the Rays, he's hitting just .206.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021•ROTOWIRE

Randy Arozarena - Falls double shy of cycleArozarena went 3-for-4 with a homer, a triple, a single and three runs scored in Saturday's 11-4 win over the Twins.

ImpactThe electrifying 26-year-old accomplished the first three legs of the cycle in the first three innings of the game on Saturday but couldn't come through with a double to complete the feat. The outburst of production comes as a sigh of relief to fantasy managers, as Arozarena entered play 0-for-9 in his last three games.

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Manuel Margot - Homers in winMargot went 1-for-4 with a home run and a walk in Saturday's 11-4 win over the Twins.

ImpactMargot led off the third inning with a home run off Minnesota starter Andrew Albers. The long ball breaks a lengthy drought for the 26-year-old, as his last homer came on July 3. Since returning from a hamstring injury on July 27, Margot is hitting .274, a few ticks above his season mark of .256.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021•ROTOWIRE

Jordan Luplow - Homers in winLuplow went 1-for-4 with a home run and a walk in Saturday's 11-4 win over the Twins.

ImpactLuplow became the second of six Rays to homer on the night when he took Minnesota starter Andrew Albers deep for a solo shot in the second inning. Saturday's round-tripper was just the second run the 27-year-old has knocked in as a member of the Rays, as he's hitting just .167 since coming over from Cleveland at the trade deadline.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021•ROTOWIRE

Yandy Díaz - Homers in winDiaz went 2-for-4 with a home run, a single, a walk and four RBI in Saturday's 11-4 win over the Twins.

ImpactDiaz plated a run with an RBI single in the first inning before smashing a three-run homer off Andrew Albers in the second to bust the game wide open. The production is nice to see from the 30-year-old, as he went 1-for-11 in his first three games in September after he spent his last five games of August hitting .357.

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Jorge Polanco - Falls triple shy of cyclePolanco went 3-for-4 with a homer, a double, a single, two runs scored and two RBI in Saturday's 11-4 loss to the Rays.

ImpactWhile the rest of the Twins' bats scuffled, Polanco stayed hot with a stat-stuffing night that saw him fall a three-bagger shy of the cycle. He also homered for the second straight night against the Rays, with this latest round-tripper coming off Tampa Bay starter Chris Archer in the fifth inning. Since July 1, the infielder is hitting .315 with 17 homers and 51 RBI.

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