KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Yankees may have a new Twins, or at least a budding twin of the Twins — another AL Central team that has become their personal punching bag and a cure to all that ails them.

The Royals do not yet have the longevity of the Twins, but they may be on their way.

During a recent stretch when hits and runs have largely been at a premium, the Yankees enjoyed an all-you-can-eat buffet of them Tuesday, courtesy of the Royals, en route to a much-needed laugher.

Attacking early and often while racking up a season-high 24 hits — 21 before facing a position player pitching in the ninth — the Yankees cruised to their third straight win, 15-1 over the Royals at Kauffman Stadium.

For the first time in franchise history, every member of the starting lineup had at least two hits. Amed Rosario led the way with four, and Trent Grisham, Ben Rice, Anthony Volpe and Austin Wells each added three. Rosario homered twice, and Grisham, Cody Bellinger, Volpe and Jazz Chisholm Jr. also went deep on a night the Yankees led 9-0 by the third inning.

“As hard as hitting is and as hard as it is now, night in and night out, to have a day where everyone can fatten up a little bit is good,” manager Aaron Boone said.

The Yankees (33-22) have won 13 straight games against the Royals (22-33), dating to the 2024 ALDS, and will go for the sweep Wednesday with Gerrit Cole on the mound. They have won 22 of their past 23 completed series against the Royals. In five wins against them this season, the Yankees have outscored them 43-10.

Before Tuesday, each of their past eight games — including Monday’s ninth-inning comeback win — and 11 of their past 15 had been decided by two runs or fewer.

That made Tuesday’s blowout a nice change of pace, allowing Cam Schlittler to get a breather — in the form of six innings of one-run ball on 77 pitches, on a night when he did not think he had his best stuff, keeping his ERA at 1.50 — and Ryan Yarbrough to finish the game and give an overworked bullpen a rest.

“It’s electric,” Schlittler, who struck out six, said of the hitting outburst. “Long sits there [between innings], but I think that’s the most hits this season in MLB, so really impressive up and down the lineup.”

The Royals used Bailey Falter as an opener, and the left-hander simply faltered. The Yankees clobbered him for seven runs across 2 ¹/₃ innings.

Falter faced 16 batters, all of them putting the ball in play and 13 of them registering hard-hit balls at exit velocities of 95 mph or higher.

“That stuff’s contagious,” said Rice, who went 3-for-5 with a walk and three runs. “Started early and then just kept our foot on the gas. It’s really fun when everyone’s clicking like that.”

Bellinger started it off with a two-out homer in the top of the first inning — his second home run in as many days — before Paul Goldschmidt doubled.

Then, after a successful Yankees challenge turned the third out into an RBI single for Ben Rice on a sinking liner to right field that touched grass as Jac Caglianone tried to make a snow-cone catch, Amed Rosario took advantage by crushing a two-run shot.

Rosario, who had not played in six days and not started in eight days, later added another two-run shot off infielder Tyler Tolbert in the ninth inning.

“Feels great to be part of Yankee history,” Rosario said through an interpreter, referring to every starter collecting at least two hits. “It’s a great fraternity. It’s great to be part of that. It’s a team effort.”

Volpe — who played hero Monday with a two-run, go-ahead single in the top of the ninth — led off the second inning Tuesday with his first home run of the season.

It was a 409-foot blast that came off the bat at 103.1 mph, his first home run since Aug. 29.

The shortstop ended up a triple short of the cycle, going 3-for-6 with two RBIs and three runs, making a case for more playing time as the Yankees continued their domination of the Royals.

“It’s one of those things where we’ve probably run into them at a good time, where we’ve had some good series at different points,” Boone said. “Just a ton of really good at-bats, and guys that were hitting the ball out of the ballpark, too. One of those nights where everything’s falling.”