With the 2026 Major League Baseball Regular Season now officially over, now is a great time to do a wholistic recap of the season.
To start off with the disappointing, but also most expected result, there was no true Scorigami for the 2026 Regular Season (although the Postseason still isn’t over yet so...). Anyways, while there was no Scorigami for the 2026 Regular Season, we still had a ton of interesting and rare occurrences.
Some Key Facts from the 2026 Regular Season
- There was no 13–0 game this season, which hasn’t happened since 2005.
- The rarest score was 22–0, with that final score only happening two other times since 1871.
- The score with the longest drought was 23–4, last happening in 1949.
- There was a total of 126 distinct final scores, and the most common score was 3–2.
- The Seattle Mariners had both their biggest loss (22–0) and their biggest win (19–1) in their history this season.
- The Athletics gave up exactly 23 runs twice this season, both at home.
- The Texas Rangers never scored more than 11 runs this season.
- Despite there being no 13–0 games, 13–1 happened 8 times, which is the most 13–1 final scores in a season ever.
- Three brand new RHE lines appeared in 2026: Giants 19–25–3 (May 31st), Rockies 23–24–1 (June 14), Cubs 23–17–0 (July 1st).
- 36 times a team was held to exactly one hit, easily passing the record of 29 from 1906 and 1915.
- There were a total of 209 extra-inning games and none went past 13 innings.
Team-Specific Scorigami Final Scores
Also while there was no league-wide Scorigami, there were several team-specific Scorigami final scores.
First off, the Orioles, Red Sox, Yankees, Rays, Blue Jays, Guardians, Tigers, Twins, Astros, Angels, Rangers, Braves, Phillies, Cubs, Reds, Pirates, Cardinals, Diamondbacks, Dodgers and Giants did not see any new final scores for their 2026 Regular Seasons.
The ten teams that did see brand new franchise final scores were the White Sox (1), Royals (2), Athletics (2), Mariners (2), Mets (2), Marlins (1), Nationals (1), Brewers (1), Rockies (2), and the Padres (2).
- White Sox: “22–1” Win.
- Royals: “22–1” Loss, “19–2” Loss.
- Athletics: “23–9” Loss, “23–4” Loss.
- Mariners: “22–0” Loss, “19–1” Win.
- Mets: “16–12” Loss, “15–14” Win.
- Marlins: “15–14” Loss.
- Nationals: “23–4” Win.
- Brewers: “22–0” Win.
- Rockies: “19–6” Loss, “23–9” Win.
- Padres: “23–3” Loss, “19–2” Win.
Statistical Changes Between 2025 and 2026
Finally, we’ll look at the statistical changes between 2025 and 2026 and the possible reasons for some of the major shifts.
- Sacrifice Bunts: +21.8% — This is one of the more noticeable increases, up over 20% from 2025. Why this is the case is not totally certain, but I would assume the increase in walks (and leadoff walks) would get more teams to sacrifice a runner to second base.
- Hit by Pitch: +9.9% — This is fairly self-explanatory, and is part of a long-term trend of more hit by pitches. Pitchers are now throwing as hard as they ever have, and with that does come some loss of control.
- Triples: +6.8% — A noticeable increase in triples, but due to the fact triples are very rarely hit as compared to other types of hits, a 6.8% increase could just be noise.
- Walks: +6.2% — The most noticeable of them all, as a 6.2% increase results in over 950 additional walks from last year. With no extra margin with the ABS system, certain pitches routinely called borderline strikes are often challenged and overturned.
- On-Base Percentage: +1.0% — Slight result of the additional walks and hit by pitches.
- Stolen Bases: −4.4% — Defenses and pitchers are most likely adapting to the new stolen bases rules, and runners are having a harder time with it.
- Doubles: −3.3% — Could be noise, but could also be that more teams are seeing value in going for triples as opposed to doubles if there are less than two outs.
- Intentional Walks: −2.0% — Not a significant decrease, but it does keep the trend of less and less intentional walks over the last several years.
- Home Runs: −1.3% — Could be noise as home runs can shift pretty significantly from year to year.
- Total Bases: −1.0% — Also could be noise, not a major change.
Here are the less than 1% changes.
- Slugging Percentage: −0.8%
- OPS: 0.0%
- Singles: 0.0%
- Strikeouts: +0.1%
- RBI: +0.3%
- Balls in Play: −0.3%
- Batting Average: −0.5% (Another year of significant batting average struggles.)
- Caught Stealing: −0.5%
- Plate Appearances: +0.5%
- Hits: −0.7%
- Runs: +0.7%
- Sacrifice Flies: −0.7%
- Double Plays: +0.7% (Slight increase in On-Base Percentage could have caused this).
So that’s the 2026 Regular Season Recap. I will be posting division-based recaps soon along with a 2026 Postseason recap once the World Series concludes.