He finally got over that ignominious threshold with his two-homer performance against the Blue Jays Thursday, and now has seven hits over his past three games, raising his season-long OPS by nearly 100 points as a result. It's a limited track record of success, but it is, I think, the start of Lowe being well worth the wait.

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