Every Monday Baseball Musings compares offense to the same point in the previous season. Through three full weeks, the 2024 season produced 8.89 runs per game compared to 9.14 runs per game in 2023. All three-true-outcome events are down. Home runs are down from 2.3 per game to 2.0 per game. Walks are down ever so slightly, by 0.01 per game. K’s are down from 17.5 per game to 17.1 per game. With strikeouts down, other hits are up, the ball in play in BABIP! The increase is small, 0.03 per game. We are getting lower scoring with more action.

The week was a poor one for offense, with only 8.16 runs per game. That’s the worst week three in the study that started in 2015. Both strikeouts and home runs collapsed, K’s coming in at 16.6 per game and HRs at 1.64 per game.