Every final score posted during the 1883 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 1883 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1883 season produced 785 games between 16 clubs, running from May 1, 1883 to September 30, 1883. Those games ended in 156 different final scores, 60 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 26 times — 3.3% of the season's games. The season also produced six tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 11.50 runs per game in 1883, 2.05 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. Shutouts accounted for 75 games (9.6% of the total), and 156 of the 779 decided games were settled by a single run (20.0%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on June 9, 1883, when the Boston Braves beat the Detroit Wolverines 30–8 — 38 combined runs. The widest margin was 28 runs: the Providence Grays over the Philadelphia Phillies 28–0 on August 21, 1883.
Nine final scores appeared for the first time in major league history during 1883: 12–12, 16–12, 18–14, 20–9, 21–6, 22–4, 27–5, 28–0, 30–8. 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.