Every final score posted during the 1884 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 1884 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1884 season produced 1,544 games between 33 clubs, running from April 17, 1884 to October 19, 1884. Those games ended in 169 different final scores, 37 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 61 times — 4.0% of the season's games. The season also produced 43 tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 10.84 runs per game in 1884, 1.39 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. Shutouts accounted for 188 games (12.2% of the total), and 305 of the 1,501 decided games were settled by a single run (20.3%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on October 10, 1884, when the Boston Braves beat the BFN 25–7 — 32 combined runs. The widest margin was 22 runs: the Providence Grays over the Detroit Wolverines 25–3 on May 14, 1884.
Three final scores appeared for the first time in major league history during 1884: 19–7, 22–6, 25–7. Each one is a scorigami — a combination of winning and losing runs that no game had produced before.
Three major leagues operated at once this season -- the National League, the American Association and the single-season Union Association -- which is why so many clubs appear on this page.