Even though baseball was on the backburner because of the NFL Draft today, offenses continued to explode through out Major League Baseball.  In just three games 64 runs were compiled, with one team in each game doing most of the work. 

The Tigers, Yankees, and Brewers scored 18, 17, and 16 respectively; on their way to routing the opposition.  The three teams combined for 10 home runs, 12 doubles and 56 hits.  Each team had one player hit two home runs in the game; Johnny Damon for the Yankees, Carlos Guillen for Detroit and Prince Fielder for the Brewers.  

The numbers that these teams produced today are not anything new.  It does happen from time to time, where a team explodes one game and puts up over 15 runs.  But what is new is the fact that three teams did it in one day.  This season, however, runs and home runs are coming in by the boat loads on a daily basis.    

While offense is expected to take a dip this year due to the tougher steroid policy, it continues to increase.  Teams like the Reds, Tigers and Yankees are hitting their way to victory, and doing it consistently.  At 17-7 the Cincinnati Reds set the franchise mark for wins in the month of April, doing it mostly behind the power of their bats.  As of today the Reds have hit 35 home runs and played 24 games.  That is an average of 1.46 home runs per game.  With hitting like that, you only need average pitching to win games, and that is what the Reds are doing.   

The St. Louis Cardinals aren't hitting home runs collectively as a team like the Reds, but they don't have to.  Albert Pujols belted his 14th home run tonight, and broke the franchise record for most home runs in the month of April.  As of right now it looks as though Pujols could challenge Barry Bonds' home run record of 73, and with the way things are going this season, I wouldn't be suprised to see a lot more hitting records fall.