Every final score posted during the 1880 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 1880 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1880 season produced 340 games between 8 clubs, running from May 1, 1880 to October 1, 1880. Those games ended in 86 different final scores, 32 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 5–2, posted 16 times — 4.7% of the season's games. The season also produced eight tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 9.39 runs per game in 1880, almost exactly the all-time average of 9.45. That is the lowest scoring rate among the 30 seasons before 1901. Shutouts accounted for 52 games (15.3% of the total), and 79 of the 332 decided games were settled by a single run (23.8%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 17, 1880, when the Worcester Ruby Legs beat the Boston Braves 19–10 — 29 combined runs. The widest margin was 19 runs: the CL2 over the BFN 22–3 on May 5, 1880.
Four final scores appeared for the first time in major league history during 1880: 11–11, 14–14, 19–2, 19–5. Each one is a scorigami — a combination of winning and losing runs that no game had produced before.
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.