Every final score posted during the 1878 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 1878 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1878 season produced 184 games between 6 clubs, running from May 1, 1878 to September 30, 1878. Those games ended in 77 different final scores, 37 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 9 times — 4.9% of the season's games. The season also produced four tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 10.35 runs per game in 1878, 0.90 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. Shutouts accounted for 25 games (13.6% of the total), and 46 of the 180 decided games were settled by a single run (25.6%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on June 6, 1878, when the Boston Braves beat the ML2 16–15 — 31 combined runs. The widest margin was 19 runs: the Providence Grays over the Boston Braves 24–5 on May 15, 1878.
One final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1878: 16–5. That square is a true scorigami — across every season played to that point, no game had ever ended on exactly those numbers.
This season sits in the early National League era, before the pitching distance was moved back to its modern 60 feet 6 inches. Scoring ran far higher than it would after 1900.