Every final score posted during the 1896 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 1896 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1896 season produced 792 games between 12 clubs, running from April 16, 1896 to September 26, 1896. Those games ended in 151 different final scores, 53 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 30 times — 3.8% of the season's games. The season also produced 14 tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 12.09 runs per game in 1896, 2.64 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. Shutouts accounted for 58 games (7.3% of the total), and 160 of the 778 decided games were settled by a single run (20.6%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on August 8, 1896, when the Baltimore Orioles (19th c.) beat the WSN 21–16 — 37 combined runs. The widest margin was 21 runs: the Boston Braves over the St. Louis Cardinals 28–7 on September 3, 1896.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1896. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
This season falls between the 1893 change in pitching distance and the arrival of the American League, a short stretch of very high offense.