Every final score posted during the 1918 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 1918 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1918 season produced 1,022 games between 16 clubs, running from April 15, 1918 to September 11, 1918. Those games ended in 93 different final scores, 31 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 78 times — 7.6% of the season's games. The season also produced ten tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 7.24 runs per game in 1918, 1.55 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 206 games (20.2% of the total), and 373 of the 1,012 decided games were settled by a single run (36.9%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 27, 1918, when the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 22–7 — 29 combined runs. The widest margin was 16 runs: the Chicago White Sox over the Detroit Tigers 19–3 on May 3, 1918.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1918. 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.