Every final score posted during the 1912 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 1912 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1912 season produced 1,240 games between 16 clubs, running from April 11, 1912 to October 16, 1912. Those games ended in 116 different final scores, 25 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 2–1, posted 71 times — 5.7% of the season's games. The season also produced 14 tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 9.04 runs per game in 1912, 0.25 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 162 games (13.1% of the total), and 377 of the 1,226 decided games were settled by a single run (30.8%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 3, 1912, when the Philadelphia Athletics beat the New York Yankees 18–15 — 33 combined runs. The widest margin was 22 runs: the Philadelphia Athletics over the Detroit Tigers 24–2 on May 18, 1912.
One final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1912: 22–10. 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.