Every final score posted during the 1886 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 1886 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1886 season produced 1,052 games between 16 clubs, running from April 17, 1886 to October 15, 1886. Those games ended in 152 different final scores, 39 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 35 times — 3.3% of the season's games. The season also produced 32 tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 10.94 runs per game in 1886, 1.49 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. Shutouts accounted for 100 games (9.5% of the total), and 206 of the 1,020 decided games were settled by a single run (20.2%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 2, 1886, when PH4 and Brooklyn Dodgers tied 19–19 for 38 combined runs. The widest margin was 24 runs: the Brooklyn Dodgers over the Baltimore Orioles (19th c.) 25–1 on June 24, 1886.
Four final scores appeared for the first time in major league history during 1886: 19–19, 21–2, 21–9, 25–1. 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.