CLEVELAND — Rocco Baldelli stood in front of a Twins backdrop in the bowels of Progressive Field answering questions about his team’s 11-1 drubbing of the Cleveland Guardians. Around a corner, inside the clubhouse, his players were hooting and hollering, cheers of delight coming from the room.

Things really have changed for the Twins, and for just about everybody on the team. Or so it seemed Monday night. How else to explain the first leadoff home run by Edouard Julien in more than a year,

The Twins (13-16) also got singles from Carlos Correa and Ty France in that opening inning, plus an RBI double from Ryan Jeffers that made it a 2-0 advantage. The hits kept coming