Every Monday Baseball Musings compares the offense of the current season to the previous season through the same number of full weeks. Through nineteen full weeks, 2025 remains slightly behind 2024 in runs per game, 8.84 R/G this season compared to 8.87 runs per game last year. Everything else is pretty much better in 2025; more hits, more home runs, more walks, fewer strikeouts. It really is a situational difference. MLB hits .252/.331/.407 with men in scoring position this year, .254/.333/.417 last year. There are more opportunities this season, which brings the scoring close. Note that isolated power is down, which means the hits don’t move runners as far.

Last week produced 9.17 Runs per Game. Home runs and strikeouts were up, but other hits were down compared to the previous week of 9.73 runs per game. There is a definite summer bump to scoring this year.