WE PRAISE FOOTBALL FOR SCORING AND IGNORE BASEBALL DOING THE SAME

It really irritates me how much baseball gets shit on for being percieved as low scoring, but we give football a pass because it’s scored differently.

Here is what I am getting at. If every baseball run scored is worth 7 points and every runner left on second or third is worth 3, basically treating those missed scoring chances like field goals, then MLB comes out to around 82.7 points per game. The NFL was around 46 points per game combined in 2025.

Football looks high-scoring because of how it’s scored, where one big play can net 7 points (given the almost automatic extra point). Baseball spreads its offense out differently between manufacturing runs using steals, hit and runs, and of course the long ball.

The NFL has bent over backwards to help quarterbacks and passing games. Baseball, by comparison, has tried to keep it simple. The biggest recent change was the pitch clock, and the pitch clock is clutch. It didn’t change the sport. It just cut out the dead time and sped the game up.

Now that games move better, people should probably admit what’s right in front of them, baseball is more offensive than they think.

It’s not just about the final score. It’s about a pitcher getting out of a jam with ducks on the pond. The constant struggle to get that clutch hit with a runner in scoring position with two outs. Football though, gets credit for potential scoring all the time while baseball gets called boring unless the run actually crosses the plate.

Baseball isn’t boring and it’s not even low-scoring in the way people act like it is. We’ve been giving football a pass and ignoring how offensive baseball actually is.