Offense ticked back up in week 12 of the 2018 season, but still fell further behind the 2017 season. Through the same time period, scoring is down to 8.77 runs per game in 2018 from 9.36 runs per game in 2017. While walks the tiniest bit higher than at this point in 2017, the majors are hitting 0.2 fewer home runs per game, and 0.5 fewer other hits per game. Balls are just not falling in this season. Strikeouts are up 0.7, so it seems all those hits were simply traded for Ks. That’s not the recipe for an action packed game.
For the week the league scored 9.3 runs per game, which is in line with the same week in the 2016 and 2017 season. the 2018 season was looking like the 2015 season, but this bounce back did not happen until the change in balls later in that year.
from baseballmusings.com https://ift.tt/2tvIJUa
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