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MINNEAPOLIS -- For two months, Minnesota Twins second baseman Brian Dozier has been among the hottest hitters in baseball.Dozier was at it again on Saturday night, cranking his 25th homer of the season -- and 100th of his major league career -- in a 5-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals.Each team will go for the series win on Sunday, although finding a way to slow down the red-hot Dozier might prove difficult for the defending World Series champions.Doziers 18 home runs since June 19 are the most in baseball, and the fifth-year player is suddenly on track for career highs in nearly every major offensive category.I think everything, for a while now, has just been feeling good and clicking on all cylinders, Dozier said. Everything feels really comfortable. Hitting is never easy, but the more you simplify it, it makes it a lot easier.Besides home runs, Dozier has hit safely in 21 of his last 22 games and has an extra-base hit in five straight.Doziers just been incredible for us, Twins manager Paul Molitor said. Its been fun to watch.Minnesota has made a habit of hitting home runs lately. They are among the best in the league during the last month and hit three more off Royals starter Dillon Gee on Saturday.Gee was doing a nice job of navigating through the Twins lineup until back-to-back homers in the sixth inning ended his night and put the game out of reach.He was throwing the ball well, Royals manager Ned Yost said. He was one hitter away from having a really, really good outing.Kansas City will send right-hander Edinson Volquez to the mound in an attempt to get back on track. Volquez has been shelled in each of his last three outings, allowing four or more runs each time out. He has allowed 11 runs and 21 hits in his last 11 innings.Volquez has been solid against Minnesota in two starts this season, however, giving up two earned runs, six hits and three walks in 6 2/3 innings and getting the win at Target Field on May 24.The Twins will send left-hander Hector Santiago to the mound in search of his first win since being traded to Minnesota on Aug. 1. Santiago was burned for five runs (four earned), seven hits and a walk in 5 1/3 innings in a loss to Houston on Tuesday. Fjallraven Kanken Mini Sale . Clarkson had been dealing with an elbow injury in early January and will be out of action for at least one week. He has three goals and five assists through 36 games with the Leafs this season. Fjallraven Sale Backpack .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. http://www.fjallravenkankencheap.com/ . After the whistle, Thornton skated the length of the ice, pulled Orpik to the ice from behind and punched him in the face several times. Fjallraven Kanken Backpack Cheap . McPhee said that Ovechkins father Mikhail is in stable condition after having the surgery this week and is no longer in intensive care. "Weve told him to stay as long as necessary with your dad," he said. Ovechkin and his Russian national team were eliminated from the mens hockey tournament in Sochi on Wednesday with a 3-1 quarter-final loss to Finland. Fjallraven Kanken Mini Cheap . Giroud, who wasnt in the starting lineup for two matches after allegations about his private life and a decline in form, scored twice in the first half. Tomas Rosickys chip made it 3-0 before half time at Emirates Stadium, while defender Laurent Koscielny scored an unmarked header in the second half. This series began with Virat Kohli as Indias temporary captain and will end with his being Indias permanent captain. Ravi Shastri has been around throughout. Aggression has thus been the buzzword. Those who are expecting a magic wand to wave over and transform India will do well to be reminded the bowlers remain the same. The same men who have failed to sustain pressure for MS Dhoni. Its an attack where the loose ball is never too far away. The real test for an India captain is to provide new results with the same attack. Kohli began the task by throwing his weight behind the bowlers, saying the batsmen need to share some of the blame.Consistency is something we have to improve on, Kohli said. Sometimes we are too harsh on our bowlers. There have been times in England as well where the batting has failed, and in this sport you need a lot of honesty. We should stand up and say that we didnt do our job properly. Sometimes we are too harsh on our bowlers.When our bowlers get hit it is always about bad bowling, when their bowlers are hit it was good batting. I dont understand where the problem lies. Sometimes they might have bowled not up to the mark, but our bowlers are always under the scanner. Lets not be too critical of them. They are young. What I saw in MCG was a good sign of what you need in Test cricket - when you are tired, bowl a tight spell, thats what the best teams in the world do. Coming back into the game at important moments. The first spells have been good, and when they improve their second and third spells can change the game. You will see different results.Kohlis assessment of the bowlers is not too different from the start of the series, when he sounded extremely excited about the presence of three 140-plus bowlers. Still think that if you have three bowlers who can bowl 140-plus that is a positive, Kohli said. At the end of the day it is about bowling in the right areas in those important situations, thats where your composure comes in the second or third spells. The guys know that, we just need to give them that breathing space in Test cricket because once you get a combination right and when you get the guys on the same page it is a very delightful journey that you enjoy winning situations/moments.The guys are pretty close to that, to see that happen sooner than later, and in this game we dont need to do much different than bowl consistently in the right areas. The fact that they have improved in the MCG Test, especially in the second innings when they were tired, shows that this can be done. So it is just about locking that in their brains and doing it every time the team needs them tto do it.dddddddddddd.Kohli said he has reflected on the Adelaide Test, and has learnt the lessons he needs to learn. There were quite a few things from Adelaide that I sat down and analysed which can be improved upon, Kohli said. I have thought about them in the past few days, that what are the things that I can correct from Adelaide, the mistakes I have made in that game. Hopefully Ill get those right and try to make the right decisions in every situation out there in the middle.Plus, I dont think there needs to be a major change. The message was plain and simple in Adelaide: go out there, back yourself, express yourself, play positively and play to win. So, theres nothing special I need to say again to the boys because everyone is on the same page and you have seen it with the way we have played in this series. We have always looked to be positive. What we could have done better is win those important moments and thats something I think we need to improve as a Test team. Once you get that composure right in those difficult situations, where the Test matches are won or lost in an hour or about 40 minutes, you will see a very different Test team and different results as well.Kohli might not want to change things too much, but things are changing fast. This could also be the last Test as India coach for Duncan Fletcher, whose contract comes up for review at the end of the World Cup. Like the erring bowlers, Fletcher, too, experienced Kohlis support. He even suggested it might be down to Flethcer if he wants to continue or not. He has done a very good job with all the young players in the team, Kohli said. The players who have played in the past, the senior players, wont require as much help as compared to the youngsters. With the youngsters he has been really good with the technical part of the game and improving small little things in our games.It makes a big difference when we go out there to play in international cricket, especially because of the kind of experience he has had with a lot of teams. I have personally certainly enjoyed him being coach and all the youngsters and all the players that have played under him have also enjoyed because you get a lot of input. But at the end of the day its an individuals call [to continue or not]. What I want and what other players want [doesnt matter], at the end of the day what matters is his personal decision. We just have to wait and watch what happens at that point of time, but I have really enjoyed playing under Duncan Fletcher. ' ' '