The Red Sox are having no issues inside the batter's box of late, as evidenced by their four-game sweep against the high-powered Blue Jays.
Following the 11-5 win against Toronto on Thursday, Boston totaled 32 runs and a plus-13 run differential over the course of the series. The series win pushed the Sox into third place in the AL East, just ahead of the Jays, who will likely be leaving Boston a bit shell-shocked.
"If we want to get to where we want to go, we have to be better in the division," Sox manager Alex Cora said to reporters. "They have a really good baseball team. They're really good at what they do. We always talk about the division and playing good baseball at Fenway, and so far we've only had one bad series here."
Friday, the Sox set a season-high in hits with 16, which marked the 16th time this season they've had 10 or more hits in a single game. The Rays are the only other team in the MLB who have had as many instances.
Against Toronto, the Sox also had at least 13 hits in all four games, with Matasaka Yoshida pacing the offense with his league-best 14-game hitting streak making a mark throughout the series.
Yoshida tied his career high in hits on Friday and has a .446 average and 18 RBIs during the streak.
Rafael Devers smoked his AL-leading 11th home run late in the game and became the 18th player in Red Sox history to hit 150 home runs and third to reach the milestone before age 27.
Both Yoshida and Devers have been key figures in the dangerous Sox offense, while other players like Alex Verdugo, Connor Wong and Triston Casas have stepped up when the team needed them.
Verdugo hit the walk-off home run in the series opener on Monday, before Wong and Casas each blasted multiple hits in Games 2 and 3.
"The personnel that we've got are able to [put the ball in play]," Cora said. "But then the kids are doing a better job. Jarren [Duran] isn't swinging and missing as much. [Enmanuel] Valdez is here and is putting the ball in play and that's something that is very important, especially given the way the game is going. No more shifting, there's more holes out there, you put the ball in play, you're probably going to get rewarded.
"I like this offense, I like where we are right now" Cora said. "The top three hitters in this lineup are going to make you work and that was the goal when we made the switch. Hopefully a big guy can take advantage of it, and so far so good."
Heading into the final meeting of the series, the Sox were at the top or near the top of numerous offensive categories including doubles, hits, extra-base hits and runs.
At Fenway, the numbers are just as good as they've scored 124 runs on 210 hits and lead the league in hits-per-game and extra-base-hits-per-game at home.
The Sox will look to keep the momentum going on the road when they head to Philadelphia for a three-game set. The Phillies are talented offensively as they're third in the MLB in hits (294) and fourth in team batting average (.266). The Red Sox are first in hits (313) and second in batting average (.274).