MINNEAPOLIS -- With Royce Lewis sidelined at least until the All-Star break, the Twins know they¡¯re going to need production from their entire lineup -- but especially their right-handed bats -- to make up for his absence.

Thursday afternoon¡¯s display provided a blueprint for surviving Life Without Royce.

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Jose Miranda and Ryan Jeffers led a 14-hit attack as the Twins beat the Tigers 12-3 in seven innings at a rain-soaked Target Field.

Miranda went 5-for-5 with three doubles, while Jeffers was 3-for-4 with a double and a home run. The 4-5 hitters in Minnesota¡¯s order combined for six runs and seven RBIs. Miranda¡¯s five hits were a career high and raised his batting average to .312 on the season.

¡°Just like we saw today, he¡¯s been swinging like that for a while,¡± Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said of Miranda. ¡°He's been giving us great at-bats, hitting balls on the screws, using the middle of the field, doing all the things you want to see, shortening up with two strikes and still finding a way to find the barrel. He has been exactly where we want him to be.

¡°We¡¯re really getting a chance to see what it looks like with extended opportunities out there. He¡¯s taking advantage.¡±

In 19 games since June 12, Miranda is slashing .419/.468/.642 with nine doubles, two homers, 12 runs scored and 19 RBIs.

Miranda credited his success to ¡°sticking to the same routine every day, kind of having the same plan, same approach. Obviously, different pitchers, you've got different stuff to do before the game. But having a routine, that's one of the main things for me, especially this year and trying to be consistent.¡±

After falling behind 3-0 in the second inning on Thursday, Miranda and Jeffers started the comeback with back-to-back doubles. And with two outs in the fourth inning, Miranda laced a drive into the right-center gap for a two-run double. Jeffers then golfed an 0-2 splitter into the left-field stands for his team-leading 14th homer of the season and a 9-3 lead.

Those were four of eight two-out runs scored by the Twins on the day, a factor that Baldelli called ¡°a difference-maker.¡±

¡°It¡¯s the difference between being in a game and having to battle through a game against a team for nine innings or separating,¡± he said. ¡°I think we did a good job of adjusting throughout our individual at-bats, where we start the at-bat out at one place but by the end we¡¯re altering what we¡¯re doing and putting the ball in play. Hitting balls -- they don¡¯t all have to be 110 off the bat, but finding a way to hit the ball sometimes when the guys are in scoring position is a big part of the answer. Our guys did a real nice job of that.¡±

Jeffers was one of the bats that carried the Twins¡¯ offense through the first six weeks of the season. On May 14, Jeffers had 10 home runs through the team¡¯s first 36 games. He hit two home runs in the next 37 games -- both on the same day, May 30 vs. Kansas City.

But the balls have started falling again for Jeffers. In his last 12 games, he¡¯s got 12 hits, including two doubles and two home runs, and he¡¯s driven in 10 runs.

Baldelli suggested that Jeffers¡¯ bat wasn¡¯t as cold as the stats made it look during his dry spell.

¡°There were some periods of time where he wasn¡¯t getting the hits where he was actually fine. He was making good adjustments,¡± Baldelli said. ¡°Yes, he was hot early on. Do you get hot like that again during the season? I don¡¯t know, but right now, he feels good with different types of swings against different types of pitchers.¡±

It¡¯s created a positive vibe in the clubhouse, one that can even overcome the loss of a key figure such as Lewis.

¡°Everyone's playing great right now. We¡¯re swinging the bat. We¡¯re having really good at-bats. Pitching the ball very well,¡± said Bailey Ober, who won his third decision out of his last four starts on Thursday. ¡°We¡¯re playing good baseball, and that¡¯s our goal every day -- just go out here and play complete baseball all the way around, offense, defense, pitching. That¡¯s just how it is right now. Hopefully we can stay on this little run and keep it going and keep that momentum going into the second half.¡±