Every final score posted during the 1897 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 1897 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1897 season produced 811 games between 12 clubs, running from April 19, 1897 to October 3, 1897. Those games ended in 145 different final scores, 47 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 5–4, posted 31 times — 3.8% of the season's games. The season also produced 25 tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 11.75 runs per game in 1897, 2.30 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. Shutouts accounted for 51 games (6.3% of the total), and 202 of the 786 decided games were settled by a single run (25.7%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on June 29, 1897, when the Chicago Cubs beat the LS3 36–7 — 43 combined runs. It was also the season's widest margin, at 29 runs.
One final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1897: 36–7. That square is a true scorigami — across every season played to that point, no game had ever ended on exactly those numbers.
This season falls between the 1893 change in pitching distance and the arrival of the American League, a short stretch of very high offense.