19 Chris Davis, 1B

Orioles first baseman Chris Davis homered for the third straight game Friday against the Blue Jays, giving him a league-leading 16 home runs. Davis added a single and double in his four at-bats to up his batting average to .337.

Davis is 8 for 12 with three home runs in his last three games and is staying in the early AL MVP picture.

Orioles first baseman Chris Davis hit his 15th home run in Thursday against the Blue Jays.

Davis had a solo home run in the fourth inning off starter Brandon Morrow. He finished 1 for 4 with a run scored and an RBI in a 12-6 loss.

Davis has four homers in the last six games and is hitting .391 (9 for 23), with five RBI over that span.

Orioles first baseman Chris Davis homered for the 14th time this season -- a two-run shot off Hiroki Kuroda in the first -- to take over the American League lead. He finished 4 for 4 with two RBI and two runs scored in Wednesday's 6-3 win over the Yankees at Camden Yards. 

The performance raises Davis' average to .329, which ranks among the top 10 in the AL. His 43 RBI are second. He's also ninth in walks (24) and leading in slugging percentage (.690). 

Davis has homers in three of his last five games, has multiple hits in four of his last six and has 10 RBI over his last 10. 

From April 22 to May 8, the Orioles' Chris Davis hit .188 (9 for 48), filling those who predicted his imminent demise with glee. But since then, he's batting .341 (14 for 41) with four home runs in 10 games.

In the biz, we call that "weathering the storm." Or at least we should. Basically, when a guy overdue for a cold streak comes out of that cold streak with numbers nearly as impressive as when he went in, his breakthrough seems all the more credible.

I still think Davis' batting average will gradually fall to about the .280 range over the next four-plus months, but he'll have so many bursts of productivity during that time that you'll hardly care. I recently moved him to 13th in my first base rankings, ahead of Freddie Freeman, making him more or less indispensable in all formats.

Orioles first baseman Chris Davis tied for the AL lead by hitting his 12th home run Saturday against the Rays . He went 2 for 4 with a single and the first-inning solo homer.

Davis is hitting .322/.415/.678 with 12 home runs and 40 RBI.