Every final score posted during the 1920 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 1920 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1920 season produced 1,241 games between 16 clubs, running from April 14, 1920 to October 12, 1920. Those games ended in 120 different final scores, 36 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 76 times — 6.1% of the season's games. The season also produced six tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.69 runs per game in 1920, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 189 games (15.2% of the total), and 370 of the 1,235 decided games were settled by a single run (30.0%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on September 14, 1920, when the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Cincinnati Reds 21–10 — 31 combined runs. The widest margin was 17 runs: the New York Yankees over the Washington Senators 17–0 on July 6, 1920.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1920. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
The spitball and other doctored pitches were outlawed this season, and umpires began replacing scuffed balls during play. The live-ball era starts here.