Every final score posted during the 1889 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 1889 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1889 season produced 1,090 games between 16 clubs, running from April 17, 1889 to October 15, 1889. Those games ended in 159 different final scores, 39 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 5–4, posted 39 times — 3.6% of the season's games. The season also produced 28 tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 11.91 runs per game in 1889, 2.46 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. Shutouts accounted for 87 games (8.0% of the total), and 234 of the 1,062 decided games were settled by a single run (22.0%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 23, 1889, when the Chicago Cubs beat the New York Giants 18–17 — 35 combined runs. The widest margin was 21 runs: the St. Louis Browns (NL, 1885-86 era) over the CL6 21–0 on May 7, 1889.
Two final scores appeared for the first time in major league history during 1889: 18–12, 19–8. 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.