Every final score posted during the 1894 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 1894 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1894 season produced 799 games between 12 clubs, running from April 19, 1894 to September 30, 1894. Those games ended in 183 different final scores, 59 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 21 times — 2.6% of the season's games. The season also produced eleven tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 14.75 runs per game in 1894, 5.30 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. That is the 5th-highest scoring rate among the 30 seasons before 1901. Shutouts accounted for 31 games (3.9% of the total), and 164 of the 788 decided games were settled by a single run (20.8%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on June 6, 1894, when the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Boston Braves 27–11 — 38 combined runs. The widest margin was 25 runs: the Philadelphia Phillies over the LS3 29–4 on August 17, 1894.
Six final scores appeared for the first time in major league history during 1894: 13–13, 16–16, 19–13, 22–1, 26–4, 26–8. Each one is a scorigami — a combination of winning and losing runs that no game had produced before.
The full effect of the previous season's longer pitching distance landed here. This is the highest-scoring season in the entire dataset.