Through the first 10 games of the season, the Oakland A’s led MLB in scoring. Their 53 runs topped the charts, ahead of the Dodgers and Mets in second place.
Since then, the A’s offense has cooled off. Over their next nine games they put up just 19 runs, dumping their daily output from five per contest down to two. They still won five of those nine games, but it was thanks to their pitching staff stepping up.
Nobody expected Oakland to do a lot of scoring this year, not after starting a new rebuild and losing several star hitters to trades and free agency, so the quick dropoff wasn’t a surprise.