Watch: Thames homers in 5th straight game, ties Brewers record
Eric Thames homers for a fifth straight game, leads MLB with 7 HR on the season pic.twitter.com/vd2sPpO552
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The river Thames floweth over.
Eric Thames, the Milwaukee Brewers' newly signed first baseman, continued his torrid resurgence into Major League Baseball on Monday, tying Jeromy Burnitz's franchise record by homering in his fifth consecutive game with a third-inning blast off Chicago Cubs right-hander John Lackey.
Thames - who spent the past three seasons in the Korea Baseball Organization, where he won an MVP award - leads the majors with seven homers early in 2017, and appears poised to bring his stardom stateside despite never being a full-time player for a complete season during his first stint in the majors.
In 2017, Thames has already surpassed his best single-season WAR total (0.8), which came over 95 games with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2011 (0.6), while one quarter of Thames' career homers have come in these past dozen games.