Every final score posted during the 1890 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 1890 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1890 season produced 1,611 games between 25 clubs, running from April 17, 1890 to October 15, 1890. Those games ended in 190 different final scores, 51 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 5–4, posted 50 times — 3.1% of the season's games. The season also produced 30 tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 12.03 runs per game in 1890, 2.58 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. Shutouts accounted for 133 games (8.3% of the total), and 328 of the 1,581 decided games were settled by a single run (20.7%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 12, 1890, when the Brooklyn Wonders (PL) beat the BFP 28–16 — 44 combined runs. The widest margin was 21 runs: the BFP over the Cleveland Infants (PL) 23–2 on April 19, 1890.
Nine final scores appeared for the first time in major league history during 1890: 18–15, 20–2, 20–12, 22–21, 23–2, 23–9, 23–17, 28–16, 30–12. Each one is a scorigami — a combination of winning and losing runs that no game had produced before.
The Players' League gave baseball three simultaneous major leagues for one season. More clubs meant more games, and this season produced more distinct final scores than any other in the file.