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As each week passes Rock Ya-Sin Jersey , the list of wide receivers around the NFL you’d take over Adam Thielen gets smaller and smaller.Antonio Brown? Ok, likely. Odell Beckham, Jr.? Maybe. DeAndre Hopkins? It’s close. Michael Thomas? Ehh emerged from a feel-good story to a bonafide superstar that strikes fear into secondaries on a weekly basis.After five games, Thielen is tied for the league lead with 66 targets, tops all receivers with 31 catches for first downs and ranks second with 589 receiving yards, trailing only Hopkins by a measly five yards.PLAYERTGTRECYDSTD1ST DOWNDeAndre Hopkins5739594229Adam Thielen6647589331Julio Jones5534564026Michael Thomas4946519327Odell Beckham5939462123He’s done so while breaking records along the way. According the Pro Football Reference, Thielen is the 22nd player to log five straight games of 100+ receiving yards, but he’s the only player to do so in the first five games of the season in the Super Bowl era. He’s also the first Vikings player to have a five-game streak of 100+ receiving yards, as Cris Carter, Jake Reed and Randy Moss (twice) managed runs of four straight games.More Vikings coveragePhotos of the Week: 7/21/19 – 7/27/19Rookie Bradbury is central figure to Vikings’ overhauled offensive lineVikings depth at cornerback being tested, Hughes still not clearedPlayers to watch at Minnesota Vikings 2019 training campTop Tweets: Vikings WR Diggs makes push for All-NFL Style TeamIf you’re curious, former Detroit star Calvin Johnson owns the record of eight straight 100-yard games http://www.indianapoliscoltsteamonline.com/ben-banogu-jersey , set while catching passes from Matthew Stafford in 2012. With matchups against Arizona, the New York Jets and New Orleans the next three weeks — defenses that have allowed a combined eight 100-yard receivers this season — another record isn’t out of the question for Thielen.The Detroit Lakes, Minn., native has accounted for 42.05 percent of the Vikings’ air yards (a measure of the number of yards the ball covers between the line of scrimmage and the point of the initial catch) this season, per Pro Football Focus.While he’s gaining plenty of yards through the air, he’s also doing damage after the catch.Thielen gained 43 yards after the catch on his 68-yard grab during the Vikings’ win over the Eagles, the fourth-most of any player in Week 5. He’s tied for third among receivers with 207 yards after the catch, deadlocked with teammate and best buddy Stefon Diggs.
Forget the anomaly that was Friday’s low-scoring game.

In May, the Arizona Diamondbacks averaged 2.9 runs per game, fewest in the major leagues. So far in June, however, they are averaging 6.5 runs Parris Campbell Jersey , including 37 in five games against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Diamondbacks (42-33) and Pirates (36-39) play the third game of a four-game series Saturday at PNC Park in Pittsburgh after Arizona’s 2-1, 13-inning win Friday.

The Diamondbacks this month have 178 hits, nine triples, 81 walks and 32 homers.

A couple of players — leadoff batter Jon Jay and Paul Goldschmidt — seem to have sparked Arizona’s offense.

Jay has multiple hits in seven of his 14 games since he was acquired by trade June 6 from Kansas City. He has reached base in all but one game and reached base twice in eight games. He has scored 16 runs with eight RBIs.

“He’s come in and he’s been unbelievable for us at the top of the lineup,” Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen told the Arizona Republic. “Almost every day he’s getting on base a couple of times and he’s just sparking us in so many different ways. He’s giving us professional at-bats. That’s something that we weren’t putting together consistently during that rut in May, which we’ve come around to doing now. It’s all sort of adding back up together again.”

Don’t look for Jay to cough up any secrets.

“I’m just trying to go out there and be myself,” he told MLB.com. “I just try to keep it simple. We’ve got a great core group of guys here. I’m just trying to be a complement to the group we have already.”

Goldschmidt is batting .475 with six doubles, a triple, eight home runs and 20 RBIs in his past 16 games.

The Diamondbacks got caught in a pitchers’ duel Friday but won their second straight game and third in their past four. They have won six of seven on the road.

Pittsburgh has lost three straight and four of five.

On Saturday, Pittsburgh right-hander Joe Musgrove (2-2, 3.68 ERA) is scheduled to face Diamondbacks righty Zack Greinke (6-5, 3.90).

Musgrove will be making is sixth start since beginning the season on the disabled list. He was dynamic out of the gate but was flat in his most recent outing Will Harris Jersey , an 8-6 loss Sunday against Cincinnati when he gave up six runs and eight hits in 4 1/3 innings, with six strikeouts and one walk.

“I felt OK. That’s my first day game in a while. Just trying to get my body alert,” Musgrove said. “It was hot out there. I felt drained. But that’s something I’m aware of now, and that’s something I’ll try to prepare for.”

Saturday’s game also is a day game, although with a late-afternoon start.

“I don’t feel like I’m lost right now. I still feel really good,” Musgrove said.”

Musgrove is 0-0 with a 2.45 ERA in two career appearances, including one start, against Arizona. That start was June 11 when the first five of his six-plus innings were scoreless in what became a no-decision. He ended up allowing three runs (two earned) on five hits in six innings.

Greinke has won three of his past four starts. He is 7-4 with a 4.91 ERA in 12 career starts against Pittsburgh. In his one start against the Pirates this season, Greinke gave up five runs on five hits and four walks over 4 2/3 innings. He took the loss in that June 13 game, which ended with a 5-4 Pirates victory.