Extremely Offensive

Jeremy Lundblad, ESPNBoston:

[A] 14-5 win over the San Diego Padres on Monday ... marked the sixth time in their past 29 games that the Red Sox have scored at least 14 runs. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the only other team with six 14-run games in a single-season span of less than 30 games was the 1930 New York Yankees. That team, led by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, pulled it off seven times in just 20 games. ...

In the last 29 games alone, Boston has matched its most 14-run games in a season since 2003. In fact, you have to go all the way back to 1950 (seven) to find the last time the Red Sox had more than six such games in a season. ...

Boston is currently averaging 5.49 runs per game, which leads the majors and would be the ninth-highest in franchise history. This comes despite averaging 4.1 runs in April. ...

1930 Yankees

2011 Red Sox

Gordon Edes, ESPNBoston:

Maybe they should just leave the duck boats parked in the center-field garage, motors running. The way the Red Sox are playing these days, John W. Henry may want to ensure those vehicles are available for booking long about late October or so. No one prints World Series tickets before the official start of summer, but few teams have looked so consistently other-worldly for the better part of two months now as the Olde Towne Team.

The Sox are 42-18 since their 2-10 start, their best record over a comparable stretch since they closed the 2004 season with a 42-17 finishing kick.

They have won 14 of their last 16 games, a stretch in which they have outscored their overmatched foes by a 128-67 margin. ...

The Sox have scored five or more runs in an inning 14 times this season. ...

The Sox sent 14 batters to the plate [in the seventh inning on Monday], the 15th time this season they've batted around in an inning and the second time in two nights. No team in the majors has had more innings this season where they've batted around. ...

Yankees' and Red Sox's schedules/scores taken from Baseball Reference