Every final score posted during the 1899 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 1899 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1899 season produced 921 games between 12 clubs, running from April 14, 1899 to October 15, 1899. Those games ended in 138 different final scores, 45 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 5–4, posted 42 times — 4.6% of the season's games. The season also produced 18 tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 10.50 runs per game in 1899, 1.05 runs above the all-time average of 9.45. Shutouts accounted for 90 games (9.8% of the total), and 232 of the 903 decided games were settled by a single run (25.7%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 30, 1899, when the LS3 beat the Cleveland Spiders 16–13 — 29 combined runs. The widest margin was 21 runs: the LS3 over the WSN 25–4 on September 2, 1899.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1899. 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.