Tigers 6, @Red Sox 2 — Not quite a Boston Massacre, but Detroit outscored the champs 13-3 in this weekend sweep, out-hit them 32-16, with an extra-base hits margin of 14-2. The Sox have three XBH-free home games this year, two in this series.

Last Fenway visitor to win three straight allowing two runs or less was the 2001 Yankees, with starts by Clemens, Mussina and El Duque.

September ’92 was the last time Boston went four straight home games with no more than one extra-base hit, and the last time one visitor did it to them three straight. (It was Detroit.)

One caveat to Detroit’s 27-12 start: They’ve only played 7 games against last year’s playoff teams. They haven’t played a soft schedule — B-R says they’re 15-6 vs. teams .500 or better — but they haven’t played Oakland yet. Four games in the Coliseum starting next Monday.

From Jake Peavy’s stats and what I saw tonight, he has a rough road ahead. Peavy got through his first 8 starts with a decent ERA, despite career-worst percentages in strikeouts, walks and home runs. Detroit smoked a lot of balls in the first three innings — three doubles, a homer and a Monster single, plus some loud outs. In three full trips through the order, Peavy fanned only the #8 and 9 hitters, once each.

Anibal Sanchez had faced Boston just once before in the regular season — his second career game, back in 2006. Papi homered twice and doubled off him then, but had just a single in six trips in last year’s ALCS; tonight, two walks and a groundout. Mike Napoli was the guy who hurt Sanchez in last year’s game 4; he went 0-2 with a walk.

Torii Hunter’s assists since moving to RF in 2011: 15, 14, 9, and none yet this year.

Detroit’s 11-game road win streak is their third-longest in searchable history. The 1984 Tigers won 17 straight, and the ’50 club took 12 in a row, starting with two in Fenway. The 1950 Tigers were one of the great overachievers, fighting the Yankees down to the last week with a low-wattage roster, before finishing three back. They split the season set with the defending champs, played over .600 both home and away, played at .552 or better in every month, and didn’t lose four straight until the last week. Unconventional manager Red Rolfe might have been lauded for the team’s sharp improvement in each of his first two years, but his poor people skills ticked off most of his players, and he didn’t last two more.

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Maybe that will get Justin Morneau noticed: His first Rockies walk-off. He’s hitting .327, 9 HRs, 32 RBI — and unlike many of his mates, he’s been good on the road, too. Morneau’s OPS is .940, OPS+ about 140. Colorado’s average OPS from first base in their first 20 years was .934 (Galarraga and Helton). Last year’s .702 was their worst ever, by 50 points, and Helton’s 90 OPS+ was their second-worst from a 1B regular.

First two-out, full-count, walk-off HR this year. (Last one from behind was June 2012, Derek Norris.)

Padres’ game-tying homer in the 9th by … Everth Cabrera? Well, six of his 11 career taters were in the 7th or later, including a walk-off slam. (Against K-Rod and the Mets, natch.)

First blown save by LaTroy Hawkins, after 10 locked down.

Tulo homered, but his 1-for-5 slashed his home BA by 32 points, from .603 to .571.

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The A’s are now 16-6 on the road.

Most games with 10+ runs scored: 8 for the A’s and Rockies, next is four.

Oakland’s 8th win by 8 runs or more; next-most is four. The modern record is 24 such wins, by the 1936 Yankees; then 21 by the 1931 and ’39 Yanks, and the ’53 Dodgers.

The ’39 Yanks had a +411 run differential, which I believe is a record. These A’s are +95 runs through 44 games, which projects to +350. Their pythagorean W% of .721 would be 4th-best in the modern era (1906 Cubs, 1902 Pirates, ’39 Yanks), and projects a record of 117-45.

Relax; I know they won’t do that. But they are clobbering people: They’re 13-2 in margins of 5+; Rockies are 12-3, next-most wins is nine. Oakland’s #1 in the AL in both scoring and run prevention.

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Alex Gordon’s the first Royal since 1987 with at least 4 hits, 3 runs and 6 RBI in a game (Kevin Seitzer). Also done by George Brett, U.L. Washington, and … Willie Wilson?

The top two in most innings/no earned runs, both bit the dust on home runs today — Adam Jones touching KC’s Aaron Crow (in his 18th inning), and rookie Kevin Kiermaier off Angels rookie Mike Morin (his 9th inning, first HR for each). New leader is Tony Sipp, who’s retired all 20 batters faced (6.2 IP).

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Another bags-filling IBB followed by a run-scoring walk, as Atlanta pulled even off Trevor Rosenthal with two outs in the 9th. A wild pitch by Carlos Martinez gave the lead to Atlanta. Cue Kimbrel; and that’s a wrap.

Men were on third and second when Rosenthal fell behind 2-and-0 on Evan Gattis, then put him on. Credit Jordan Schafer, who was 3 for 26 with one walk, for fouling off two full-count pitches to stay alive. But while Schafer’s been scuffling, he’s barely played this year. His career OBP against righties is .321; Gattis has hit .235 off righties. I’m not feeling that trade-off.

Key to that inning was Ryan Doumit’s two-out pinch-double, just before Gattis was passed.

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Milwaukee’s cooled off, but no one’s gained much ground. At 20-7, they led the Cards by 6.5, Reds by 7.5, Bucs by 9.5. Now at 27-17, those margins are 4.0, 7.0 and 8.5. While the Crew went 7-10, St. Louis went 9-7, Cincy 7-9, Pittsburgh 8-9.

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The 7th inning bit R.A. Dickey again, on Mitch Moreland’s home run after an infield error. Seventh-inning batters are 10 for 23 with 7 extra-base hits off the former Cy Young winner, with one strikeout in 25 PAs.

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Two straight series wins for Houston. I had actually forgotten their roof could be opened.

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Billy Hamilton’s first assist, with excellent form.

Devin Mesoraco went 4-for-4 with two doubles, batting .500 (27/54) with 12 extra-base hits, 17 RBI. He was stranded each time, including three leadoff hits.

Reds went 1-for-16 with RISP, dropping to .215 in that split. It’s just noise at this point, but the games lost stay lost.

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Adam Dunn tied a known record with his 13th game of 4+ strikeouts and SO=PA. Whom did he tie? A very famous All-Star with less than 1,000 career games, in the DH era. (Not a pitcher.)

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Albert Pujols was 0-for-7 off David Price before today’s 2-HR, 3-hit eruption.

Price’s stats just get more freakish: In almost 70 IP, he has 77 strikeouts, 6 walks — but 78 hits and 11 HRs for a 4.28 ERA. So, his K/W ratio is over 12; the qualified record is 11.0, by Bret Saberhagen in strike-shortened 1994. Only Cliff Lee has also come in at 10+ K/W. Of the nine prior seasons with 8+ K/W, the worst ERA was Curt Schilling’s 3.23 in 2002, which was darn good for that time, earning a 140 ERA+; the worst ERA+ for 8+ K/W was Lee’s 133 in 2010.

But there’s one other in Price’s vicinity this year: Bartolo Colon’s K/W ratio is over 7 (43/6), with a 5.34 ERA in 57 IP (64 ERA+). For a 7+ K/W ratio, the worst ERA was 3.44, worst ERA+ 128.

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‘Zona’s first back-to-back home wins since mid-September last year.

Yasiel Puig plunked in his last time up, streaks stopped at 16 games with a hit, 8 with an XBH.

Dee Gordon’s 12 for 59 since his 5-hit game, BA down from .357 to .304.

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SF’s 3-run 1st sunk Jacob Turner and the Fish. He had two strikes on six batters that inning, but all did something productive: Gregor Blanco, 0-2, HBP; Hunter Pence, 2-2, advancing grounder to right side; Buster Posey, 1-2, sac fly; Pablo Sandoval, 1-2, single; Tyler Colvin, 2-2, single; Brandon Hicks, 3-2, single. Four straight singles added two runs after two outs and none on. Turner was strong after that, pitching five more innings with one run on two hits, 7 Ks and a walk.

Ryan Vogelsong is shaping up. Five of his last seven starts, one run or less in 6+ IP.

Carter Capps has 14 Ks, one walk, in 10 IP. He was knocked around in his first two years, but his minor-league stats are impressive since he switched to relief. (Prob’ly due for a T.J. by August.)

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Have we started taking Felix for granted? In the three years since his Cy Young Award, he’s “only” #7 in pitching WAR. Today’s eight efficient innings left him 5-1, 2.94, with a career-best 5.0 K/W ratio.

Robinson Cano’s first 4-hit (or 3-hit) game for Seattle. Hitting .369 his last 26 games, but no HRs in that span, still one for the year.

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As you watch this, remember that Josh Harrison is an infielder by trade, and has never started in left field. He opened this game at third base, turned a shifty 3-5-3 DP in the 5th (corralling a short hop), and hit a tiebreaking home run in the 7th. Then he moved to LF, and where that catch in the 8th might have saved the tying run, with no outs and a man on first. He had played eight total innings in left before this game. It wasn’t all gems for Harrison, but a great game nonetheless. He’s 15 for 39 in nine starts this year, with 7 XBH.

Brett Gardner led off the home 1st with a triple (second game), then got picked off with one out and Teixeira up. Huh? The clip doesn’t show the defensive setup, but most teams pull the third baseman way off the bag for Teixeira, and maybe Gardner got too comfy with that.

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Heard a long radio rant this morning about the Mets’ “too-patient” offensive approach, how doesn’t fit this team or their park, and it’s a “manifest failure” since they’re next-to-last in batting average at .229. I wouldn’t bother with this, but it came from someone I like, so here goes:

To state the obvious, batting average doesn’t win games; runs do. Through Saturday, the Mets were 5th in NL scoring, slightly above average at 4.05 R/G, despite their tough park. One reason for this: They were #1 in NL walks per game.

Is that just an anomaly? Oakland was just 5th in AL BA, but easily #1 in scoring. They’re #1 in walks per game. Minnesota was 10th in AL BA, 13th in home runs, but 6th in scoring — they’re #2 in walks. Baltimore’s BA was the same as Oakland’s, .257, but they were 13th in scoring — and dead last in walks. The Yankees were #2 in AL BA, with solid power, but 11th in walks — and 7th in scoring, right at the league average.

Arizona’s out-hitting the Mets by almost 30 points, with far more power — but they’re last in walks per game, and scoring less than the Mets. Would you rather have a good batting average, or score more runs?

There might be a sound argument against the Mets’ approach. But basing it on batting average is a straight whiff.