Every Monday Baseball Musings compares offense of the current season to the previous season through the same number of full weeks. Through twelve full weeks, MLB games generated 8.70 runs versus 9.10 runs in 2023. That narrows the gap some between the seasons. The gap in home runs narrowed a bit as well, with 2.13 per game in 2024 versus 2.31 in 2023.

Over the last three weeks, strike outs have been steadily low at 16.2 per game. Last week also saw the lowest walk rate for a week this year of 5.6 per game. Home runs had their best week of the year at 2.6 per game. I will take that trade-off in three true outcomes. You can follow the weekly run numbers here.