Every Monday Baseball Musings compares the offense of the current season to the previous season through the same number of full weeks. Through eighteen weeks, the 2024 season produced 8.83 runs per game compare to 9.17 in 2023. A big week for offense closed the gap a bit. Home runs per game are much closer year to year, 2.23 in 2024 versus 2.38 in 2023. Other hits are close as well, 14.14 in 2024 versus 14.39 in 2023. Strikeouts and walks remain down, Ks going from 17.2 per game to 16.8 per gane and walks dropping from 6.50 per game to 6.17 per game. Overall the drop in batters earning their way on base dropped from 24.1 per game to 23.4 per game.

Week 18 produced 9.89 runs per game, the highest of any week this season and the highest of any week 18 going back to 2015. It game down to home runs, with 2.7 hit per game, the best of any week this season. Other hits were up, too, with 14.56 per game. Walks, however remained low. So batters put the bat on the ball last week and saw very good results.