Every Monday Baseball Musings compares offense in the current season to the previous season through the same number of full weeks. Through 24 weeks, the major league game produced 8.83 runs per game compared to 9.26 in 2023. The 2024 season gained on 2023 through the summer, but the last five weeks proved low scoring, and 2024 now trails by over 0.4 runs. If you’ve been following the series, you know that all the stats that contribute to the game are down. The most disturbing to me is that both strikeouts and hits are down. Fewer Ks should lead to more balls in play and more hits, but that just hasn’t happened. With walks down about 0.8 fewer batters are reach base per game.

Last week saw the majors produce 8.36 runs per game. That’s the second lowest week 24 since 2015. HR have been low for the second week in a row, and blame Aaron Judge.