Every final score posted during the 1898 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 1898 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1898 season produced 920 games between 12 clubs, running from April 15, 1898 to October 15, 1898. Those games ended in 120 different final scores, 28 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 39 times — 4.2% of the season's games. The season also produced 24 tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 9.92 runs per game in 1898, 0.47 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. That is the 3rd-lowest scoring rate among the 30 seasons before 1901. Shutouts accounted for 85 games (9.2% of the total), and 209 of the 896 decided games were settled by a single run (23.3%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 24, 1898, when the Baltimore Orioles (19th c.) beat the Chicago Cubs 15–13 — 28 combined runs. The widest margin was 20 runs: the Boston Braves over the LS3 24–4 on September 20, 1898.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1898. 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.