Every final score posted during the 1874 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 1874 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1874 season produced 232 games between 8 clubs, running from April 16, 1874 to October 30, 1874. Those games ended in 119 different final scores, 61 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 5–2, posted 9 times — 3.9% of the season's games. The season also produced one tie game, which sits on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 14.96 runs per game in 1874, 5.51 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. That is the 4th-highest scoring rate among the 30 seasons before 1901. Shutouts accounted for 15 games (6.5% of the total), and 41 of the 231 decided games were settled by a single run (17.7%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on August 17, 1874, when the PH2 beat the BR2 24–16 — 40 combined runs. The widest margin was 37 runs: the NY2 over the CH2 38–1 on June 18, 1874.
A total of 21 final scores appeared for the first time during 1874: 3–1, 10–9, 13–1, 13–7, 14–1, 14–10, 14–11, 15–1, 16–15, 17–16, 18–4, 20–14, and 9 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.