Every final score posted during the 1873 Major League Baseball season, tabulated by winning-team runs and losing-team runs.
Baseball games end with a final score, like 8–6. The number across the top is how many runs the winning team scored; the number down the side is how many runs the losing team scored. Where a column and row meet, that square shows how many 1873 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1873 season produced 199 games between 9 clubs, running from April 14, 1873 to November 1, 1873. Those games ended in 124 different final scores, 79 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 5–4, posted 6 times — 3.0% of the season's games. The season also produced two tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 17.95 runs per game in 1873, 8.50 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. That is the 3rd-highest scoring rate among the 30 seasons before 1901. Shutouts accounted for 8 games (4.0% of the total), and 30 of the 197 decided games were settled by a single run (15.2%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 26, 1873, when the Philadelphia Quakers beat the WS5 30–19 — 49 combined runs. The widest margin was 34 runs: the BL1 over the BL4 35–1 on June 30, 1873.
A total of 43 final scores appeared for the first time during 1873: 3–0, 5–0, 6–1, 7–6, 9–0, 9–9, 10–4, 11–2, 12–1, 13–5, 14–0, 14–2, and 31 others. Almost every score was new in these years, because there was so little history for a result to be new against. The board filled itself faster in the 1870s than it could ever be filled again.
This season belongs to the National Association, the first professional league. Its games are included here because Retrosheet covers them, and their very high scores are a large part of why the all-time board looks the way it does.