Every final score posted during the 1902 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 1902 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1902 season produced 1,117 games between 16 clubs, running from April 17, 1902 to October 5, 1902. Those games ended in 116 different final scores, 30 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 60 times — 5.4% of the season's games. The season also produced 24 tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.86 runs per game in 1902, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 157 games (14.1% of the total), and 297 of the 1,093 decided games were settled by a single run (27.2%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 8, 1902, when the Philadelphia Athletics beat the Boston Red Sox 22–9 — 31 combined runs. The widest margin was 22 runs: the Cincinnati Reds over the Philadelphia Phillies 24–2 on May 13, 1902.
One final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1902: 24–2. That square is a true scorigami — across every season played to that point, no game had ever ended on exactly those numbers.
This season belongs to the dead-ball era, when a single ball was often kept in play until it was too soft to drive. Low scores and shutouts dominate the board.