ADAMS TWP — Singles, doubles, triples.

And, yes, home runs. Lots of home runs.

Stolen bases. Sacrifice flies. Bunt hits.

And, runs. Lots and lots of runs.

The Mars baseball team has been putting on an offensive clinic this season, scoring at a prodigious rate and putting up crooked numbers in a variety of ways.

Long ball? Small ball? It's all the same.

No pitcher is safe when Mars attacks.

“Before the season all of us were kind of saying how deep we were and how we could put up 10 runs a game,” said Mars senior catcher and leadoff hitter Teddy Ruffner. “That's not too unrealistic.”

In fact, it hasn't been because that's exactly what the Planets have done in 2021.

Mars has scored 10 or more runs in 10 games this season. In an 11-3 win over Hampton Tuesday, the Planets set a single-season school record for runs scored with 165 and with four home runs are closing in on that single-season record, too.

Mars, now 11-5 overall and 8-3 in the section with a big game at Hampton looming Wednesday afternoon, has launched 16 home runs as a team this season. The school record is 20 set in 2002.

The tone has been established by the first four in the order:

- Ruffner, a senior catcher, is batting .397 with two homers and seven stolen bases.

“Teddy is a multi-sport star and one of the fastest catchers in Western Pennsylvania,” said Mars coach Jason Thompson. “He's hitting the ball hard and setting the table.”

- JJ Wetherholt, a senior shortstop, has a robust .490 average with two home runs, 18 RBI and a .603 on-base percentage.

“He's one of the most pure hitters I've ever seen in my baseball career,” Thompson said. “He's just unbelievable. He can work counts and work pitchers and he's going to be able to hit no matter the situation.”

- No. 3 hitter Mitchell Schultz leads the team with six homers and 23 RBI while also batting .420.

“The home runs ... are just insane,” Thompson said.

- Cleanup hitter, sophomore first baseman Petey Craska, has seen a steady diet of breaking balls because of his prodigious power and has walked a team-leading 18 times.

“His power has definitely been on display,” Thompson said. “You know, I think he was getting a little frustrated at the beginning of the season. He was seeing a ton of breaking balls and he changed his approach at the plate. He recognized for this the team, a walk is the same as a hit, and in this lineup, that can easily produce runs.”

Wetherholt also noticed the potential of the top of the order, which has shredding opposing pitchers and frustrated them, too, with their patient approaches at the plate.”

“Gosh, our first four guys are mature guys and this is their second year of varsity,” Wetherholt said. “Our fourth guy is going to Georgia Tech. It makes it pretty difficult for pitchers to work us.”

The bottom of the order is flourishing, too.

No. 8 hitter Trey Wagner is batting .438.

The lineup has also benefitted from consistency — the order has been the same, one-through-nine, for much of the season.

And that has produced big offensive days and wins. The Planets are 10-0 in games in which they score 10 or more runs. Their lone win when they didn't score double-digits was a 4-3 triumph over Penn Hills Thursday.

Mars is batting .363 as a team and has walked (92) almost as many times as it has struck out (94).

“We've been able to knock a decent amount of pitchers out of games early,” Ruffner said. “It doesn't matter who is up in the lineup, we always feel like we can score. It doesn't matter if it's seven-eight-nine or one-two-three. It's a good feeling to know anyone has a chance to start a rally.”

The lineup will face a true test come playoff time.

Mars has yet to face a hard-throwing ace, but the Planets likely will and perhaps early in the WPIAL playoffs.

Ruffner thinks that may actually help Mars.

“Sometimes it's hard to lay back on some of these crafty pitchers we've seen who don't throw hard,” Ruffner said. “We kind of want to see guys like we saw during the summer. We've seen that type of pitching before, especially the guys at the top of our lineup.”

Wetherholt believes Mars' lineup is potent enough to batter almost any kind of pitching.

“I'd say we haven't really seen an elite arm, anything like upper 80s, lower 90s,” Wetherholt said. “So that will be a big change that we will have to adapt to. I'm excited, though, because I believe we're a team that can put up 10 runs on anyone. It depends on if we show up.”