ARLINGTON—Chien-Ming Wang is a rock star again.

At least, judging from the flock of reporters waiting to interview him in the Blue Jays’ clubhouse here, you’d get that idea. In fact, the throng was big enough to prompt the club to unfurl its backdrop so the interviewing process could be done outside the clubhouse and out of the way of the remaining members of the team.

Adam Lind sat in his chair, drying off from a post-game shower, relatively forlorn. He’d clubbed a three-run homer in the Jays’ 7-2 trouncing of the Texas Rangers. He is the hottest hitter in the major leagues at the moment but so many things went right for the Jays here this weekend, Lind was merely second in line behind Wang.

“We’re basically a home run hitting team, but when we’re good, we’re doing more than hitting home runs,” Jays manager John Gibbons said as his club swept the four-game series in Texas and went 5-1 on their trip through Texas and Chicago.

Gibbons and the Jays could feel good about the hitting — much of it coming from Lind — and most importantly, starting pitching.

Much maligned for most of this season, Toronto’s starters worked a minimum of 6 2/3 innings against Texas, and three went seven innings or more.

Wang put up seven shutout innings, and his story — a triumphant two-game return to the big leagues — put the Jays in great shape to sweep this series.

It also attracted over a dozen reporters from his native Taiwan, several of whom took a roughly 20-hour flight to Arlington just to witness this start Sunday. And many of them even interviewed Toronto baseball writers, admitting they weren’t there so much for the baseball as they were to cover Wang’s every move.

Lind didn’t receive that kind of adulation. But there is something going on with Lind that is of star proportions on its own. But part of the reason he isn’t attracting growing interest in the baseball world is because he hasn’t yet appeared in the daily batting race.

Lind, with his homer and 3-for-5 effort Sunday, continued a month-long hot streak that has him easily leading the Jays with .350 average. He’d actually rank second in American League hitting, but the formula to qualify for the race has left him just on the outside of it.

To his teammates, though, Lind is tops.

“He hasn’t gotten out since the end of April, I don’t think,” said J.P. Arencibia, who had his second homer of the series Sunday, and was joined in the homer department by Colby Rasmus, who clubbed his third of the series.

Lind has now hit safely in 17 of his last 19 games, and 13 of those games have been multi-hit affairs. The red-headed first baseman has also raised his average .115 points since May 10 and has been the hottest hitter in the majors since then (48-for-119).

For now, this is big stuff; Toronto has seen Jose Bautista lead the majors in homers for two straight seasons; and it has seen Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion form the top RBI producing tandem since the 2012 all-star break. But in terms of hitting for average, Toronto has not seen a Lind-like streak since Tony Fernandez flirted with a .400 average in June 1999.

“At this time last year I was in the minor leagues, so I try not to think of those things,” Lind said.

Lind’s mother phoned him earlier in the weekend to praise him for his work, and he told her basically the same thing.

And that’s the approach the Jays are adopting as well.

The club is still in last place, but it did pull itself to within four games of .500 for the first time since April 25. It has won five straight for the first time this season, nine of its last 12, and probably could be even better in the standings had it not booted the ball around in two games in San Diego two weekends ago.

But the club is playing better baseball all around, and that’s the focal point as it tries to get to the break even point, then work on living up to the giant expectations placed on the organization in spring training.

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