DETROIT >> Spencer Torkelson looked up in disbelief.

This was Wednesday and the Tigers had just scored double-digit runs against the Red Sox in the first two games of the series. It was mentioned to him that it was the sixth time this month they’d scored 10 or more runs and the month was only half over.

“Dang!” Torkelson said. “Wow.”

Indeed.

The Tigers hadn’t scored six double-digit runs in a month since 2016.

“We are definitely seeing it well up and down the lineup,” Torkelson said.

Entering the game Friday night in Toronto, only the Yankees (250) had scored more runs than the Tigers (244) in the American League. No Tigers team had scored 244 runs in the first 44 games in 31 years, since 1994.

“I think it comes down to the team approach that we talked about,” said Torkelson, who leads the team with 11 homers and 34 RBIs. “Get it to the next guy, grind out the at-bats. I feel like you can look at the Tanner Houck inning (nine runs), all the innings, you can look at the productive outs that were like seven- or eight-pitch at-bats.

“Yeah, it’s an 0-fer, but he just worked eight pitches for an out, now he gets to face Riley Greene.”

Or, case in point, Red Sox reliever Garrett Whitlock gets to face Javier Báez after an eight-pitch battle with Jace Jung that ended up with him hitting Jung in the foot.

“The first thing Javy said when he crossed the plate (after a three-run home run) was, ‘Good at-bat Jace,’” Torkelson said. “Javy gets that mistake because of Jace’s battle.

“We’re not going up as individuals, like, first pitch I see I’m trying to take it yard. We’re working counts.”

The Tigers aren’t conceding innings, either. The lead baseball scoring 104 runs with two outs. They have hit 17 two-out homers and have a .357 on-base percentage and an .808 OPS with runners in scoring position.

With two outs and runners in scoring position, they are slugging .505 with an .896 OPS.

“First of all, I think it goes back to our game-planning as a group and as individuals,” said Greene, who has 10 homers and an .823 OPS. “Our hitting coaches have us locked in.”

Greene singled out Michael Brdar, Keith Beauregard and Lance Zawadzki, the Tigers’ hitting department.

“There are times when I’ll be like, ‘Michael, tell me what to do, just tell me what to do and I’ll do it,’” Greene said. “There’s times when I will go to him and say, like, I don’t know what to do off this guy. And he will tell me and I will do it and I will get a hit.

“They have us prepared and I feel like they don’t get enough appreciation and I want them to. They are a big part of us.”

Greene also wishes someone would video their reactions in the dugout after the Tigers score some runs.

“They are more happy than we are when we score runs,” Greene said. “They’re hugging, jumping up and down. It’s like they’re at a club every time we score a run.”

Manager AJ Hinch has praised the work of his hitting coaches all season and Greene’s testimonial has to warm his heart.

“They have a tough job,” he said. “They never get to have a good day because no matter how many runs we score, somebody inevitably went hitless. Somebody needs their attention.”

Greene has been known to text one of the hitting coaches in the wee hours to run an adjustment idea past them. At least one of them responds every time.

“It’s not just them doing their jobs as hitting coaches, they’re great people, too,” he said.

Final hurdle?

Center fielder Parker Meadows was scheduled to throw to bases from the outfield before the game Saturday.

That could be the last hurdle before he starts a rehab assignment.

“He doesn’t have to be fully back to 100% throwing to go on rehab assignment,” Hinch said before the game Friday.

“But for his mind and for his readiness to go compete on a rehab level, tomorrow is very important.”

Meadows has been out since early in spring with a nerve issue in his upper right arm.

Utility man Matt Vierling (shoulder) is close to wrapping up his rehab assignment at Triple-A Toledo.

It’s not official.

However Meadows could replace Vierling at Toledo after this weekend and Vierling could join the Tigers in St. Louis.