Every final score posted during the 1917 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 1917 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1917 season produced 1,253 games between 16 clubs, running from April 11, 1917 to October 15, 1917. Those games ended in 94 different final scores, 19 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 2–1, posted 94 times — 7.5% of the season's games. The season also produced 23 tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 7.17 runs per game in 1917, 1.62 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 254 games (20.3% of the total), and 412 of the 1,230 decided games were settled by a single run (33.5%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 24, 1917, when the Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 19–9 — 28 combined runs. The widest margin was 18 runs: the Detroit Tigers over the St. Louis Browns 19–1 on June 29, 1917.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1917. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
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.