Every final score posted during the 1879 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 1879 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1879 season produced 321 games between 8 clubs, running from May 1, 1879 to September 30, 1879. Those games ended in 105 different final scores, 42 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 13 times — 4.0% of the season's games. The season also produced five tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 10.60 runs per game in 1879, 1.15 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. Shutouts accounted for 43 games (13.4% of the total), and 64 of the 316 decided games were settled by a single run (20.3%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on June 21, 1879, when the Cincinnati Red Stockings beat the Boston Braves 15–13 — 28 combined runs. The widest margin was 16 runs: the Providence Grays over the Cincinnati Red Stockings 17–1 on May 24, 1879.
One final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1879: 0–0. 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.