Offense was on the menu in Major League Baseball on Tuesday night as 12 teams combined for a feat not seen around the league in 129 years.
For the first time since 1894, 12 different teams scored double-digit runs on the same day. The league-wide offensive outburst ties for the second-most teams to score more than 10 runs in a single day after 13 clubs achieved the mark on July 4, 1894.
The Giants beat the Reds, the Mets downed the White Sox and the Royals defeated the Tigers all by a score of 11–10, the first instance in league history that the score occurred three times on the same day, according to Elias Sports Bureau. In two of the other results of the evening, the Diamondbacks held off the Braves 16–13, while the Cubs routed the Nationals 17–3.
The Dodgers, Twins and Guardians all reached 10 runs in comfortable wins over the Orioles, Mariners and Pirates, respectively.
As for the AL Central, all 5 teams scored 10+ runs on Tuesday. It's just the 2nd day in the Divisional Era (since 1969) that each team in a division has scored double-digit runs on the same day. The other instance was Sep. 15, 2000 when the AL West did so. pic.twitter.com/saKtUq9PFK
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The explosion on offense also brought a few other rare instances for MLB as all five teams in the American League Central scored 10 or more runs, marking just the second time since 1969 that a single division had done so. On the flip side, the AL East went 0–5 and scored just a total of eight runs for only the second time this season, per ESPN Stats & Info.
