Every final score posted during the 1882 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 1882 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1882 season produced 572 games between 14 clubs, running from May 1, 1882 to October 2, 1882. Those games ended in 120 different final scores, 38 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 21 times — 3.7% of the season's games. The season also produced six tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 10.65 runs per game in 1882, 1.20 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. Shutouts accounted for 66 games (11.5% of the total), and 126 of the 566 decided games were settled by a single run (22.3%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 24, 1882, when the Chicago Cubs beat the CL2 35–4 — 39 combined runs. It was also the season's widest margin, at 31 runs.
Six final scores appeared for the first time in major league history during 1882: 18–3, 19–1, 21–17, 22–7, 24–1, 35–4. Each one is a scorigami — a combination of winning and losing runs that no game had produced before.
The American Association began play this year as a second major league, roughly doubling the number of games in the record.