Every final score posted during the 1885 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 1885 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1885 season produced 890 games between 16 clubs, running from April 18, 1885 to October 10, 1885. Those games ended in 128 different final scores, 37 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 37 times — 4.2% of the season's games. The season also produced four tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 10.44 runs per game in 1885, 0.99 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. Shutouts accounted for 111 games (12.5% of the total), and 204 of the 886 decided games were settled by a single run (23.0%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on June 25, 1885, when the Brooklyn Dodgers beat the PH4 21–14 — 35 combined runs. The widest margin was 24 runs: the New York Giants over the BFN 24–0 on May 27, 1885.
Three final scores appeared for the first time in major league history during 1885: 21–10, 21–14, 24–10. 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.