The Yankees continued their offensive ways with a 9-2 win in Kansas City. They have scored 47 runs in the last three games. Just eleven teams since 1900 have scored more runs over three games.

Tonight they can add to that streak when they face Scott Elarton in Kansas City. Elarton owns a 9.17 ERA this season and his ERA is even worse at Kauffman Stadium (11.34 in four starts). Nine runs would give the Yankees 56 in four games; 11 runs, 58 overall.

Where would that put them on the all-time list? Well, 224 nineteenth-century teams amassed more than 58 runs in four games. The old, old, old Philly A's—that is three iterations back—scored 100 runs in four games in 1872. They beat Baltimore 34-19, Boston 10-7 (before a reported crowd of 5,000), Troy 25-5, and Cleveland 31-7 between May 1 and May 18. Overall, they outscored their opponents 100 to 38 or 25 to 9.5 per game.

However, since 1900 only six teams, and none since 1950, have scored more than 58 runs in a game. The most was by the 1950 Red Sox, who shut out the White Sox 12-0, lost to Chicago 4-8, and then beat the Browns 20-4 and 29-4, all at Fenway Park. That team also scored at least eleven runs in the three games before this streak and allowed thirty in total in the two games after it. The '50 Sox finished in third with a 94-60 record, four games behind (who else?) the Yankees. They had a 4.88 team ERA and outscored opponents 8.12 to 5.55 at home and 5.22 to 4.90 on the road.

The Yankees need to score 18 runs tonight to match the '50 Red Sox four-game offensive output. The most that the Royals have allowed this season was 17 runs to the A's May 10 at home. They have, however, scored 17 three times this season.

For the record, here are the teams that have scored the most runs in the consecutive games all time:

And since 1900:

Now, the most in a four-game stretch all time:

And since 1900:

Team	Yr	Date 1	R	Opp	RA	Date 2	R	Opp	RA	Date 3	R	Opp	RA	Date 4	R	Opp	RA	4-G R
Boston Red Sox	1950	19500605	12	CHA	0	19500606	4	CHA	8	19500607	20	SLA	4	19500608	29	SLA	4	65
Boston Red Sox	1950	19500607	20	SLA	4	19500608	29	SLA	4	19500609	7	SLA	12	19500610	8	DET	18	64
New York Yankees	1936	19360521	9	DET	10	19360523	12	PHA	6	19360523	15	PHA	1	19360524	25	PHA	2	61
Boston Red Sox	1950	19500606	4	CHA	8	19500607	20	SLA	4	19500608	29	SLA	4	19500609	7	SLA	12	60
New York Yankees	1936	19360523	12	PHA	6	19360523	15	PHA	1	19360524	25	PHA	2	19360525	7	PHA	10	59
Chicago Cubs	1930	19300601	16	PIT	4	19300603	15	BSN	2	19300604	18	BSN	10	19300605	10	BSN	7	59
Seattle Mariners	2000	20000414	11	TOR	9	20000415	17	TOR	6	20000416	19	TOR	7	20000418	11	CHA	18	58
Pittsburgh Pirates	1901	19010905	15	NY1	1	19010905	15	NY1	7	19010906	15	NY1	2	19010906	13	NY1	4	58
Boston Red Sox	1940	19400927	24	WS1	4	19400928	16	PHA	4	19400928	8	PHA	1	19400929	9	PHA	4	57
New York Yankees	1939	19390811	9	PHA	5	19390812	18	PHA	4	19390813	9	PHA	12	19390813	21	PHA	0	57
Pittsburgh Pirates	1928	19280802	18	PHI	4	19280803	14	PHI	6	19280804	14	PHI	8	19280804	11	PHI	4	57
Pittsburgh Pirates	1925	19250619	9	BRO	6	19250620	21	BRO	5	19250622	24	SLN	6	19250624	3	SLN	11	57
Pittsburgh Pirates	1922	19220807	17	PHI	10	19220808	19	PHI	8	19220808	7	PHI	3	19220810	14	PHI	4	57
New York Giants	1912	19120601	13	SLN	4	19120603	8	SLN	3	19120604	14	SLN	9	19120605	22	CIN	10	57
New York Giants	1912	19120620	21	BSN	12	19120621	5	BSN	2	19120622	17	BSN	5	19120622	14	BSN	12	57