Every Monday Baseball Musings compares the offense of the current season to the previous season through the same number of full weeks. Through 23 full weeks the majors average 8.94 runs per game compared to 8.85 runs per game in 2024. Given that home runs and other hits are up slightly, and walks are up the most, with strikeouts down, I still think 2025 should be farther ahead of 2024.

The last nine weeks, however, did see offense over nine runs per game every week. The first 13 weeks of 2025 saw MLB average 8.72 R/G. Since then, the majors are at 9.26 R/G. This is somewhat similar to the 2015 season where runs per game were up 0.5 runs in the second half of the season. At that time, there was speculation the MLB changed the ball, and Mitchel Litchman found evidence later that the second half ball was different. I have not heard that speculation this season, since the difference seems to be related to better situational hitting.