The Minnesota Twins had a field day with the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday afternoon.
The 17-9 final score resembles a football final more than it does a baseball one, but the Twins will surely take it.
As you probably can expect from such a lopsided game, many of the Twins hitters had excellent performances.
No one played a better game than Carlos Correa, though.
The experienced shortstop keeps surging, and went 5-for-6 with three runs against the Rockies’ hapless pitching staff.
“Carlos Correa’s first career five-hit game! 5-for-6 with five singles, three runs scored and an RBI,” Talkin’ Baseball tweeted.
Carlos Correa’s first career five-hit game!
5-for-6 with five singles, three runs scored and an RBI pic.twitter.com/7bswyFckGh
Correa is now hitting a cool .290/.356/.459 and keeps improving his season line with his recent performance.
He now has 15 hits in his last seven games, with a double and a home run.
Correa has fought countless high-leverage battles with the Houston Astros and even with the Twins, but Minnesota needed him to be much better than the .230/.312/.399 player he was last year, in 514 at-bats.
He is making a hefty sum of money to be one of the Twins’ leaders, both on and off the field.
For a time, it looked like he was trending to post similar numbers in 2024 to those he had in 2023, but his recent surge and the historic game he just had suggest otherwise.
Maybe he just needed a few weeks to fully catch fire, and he is currently one of the hottest players in the league.
Don’t let the early-season numbers fool you: Correa is still a star, and he is starting to play like one.