Every final score posted during the 1923 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 1923 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1923 season produced 1,239 games between 16 clubs, running from April 17, 1923 to October 15, 1923. Those games ended in 129 different final scores, 40 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 70 times — 5.6% of the season's games. The season also produced seven tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 9.62 runs per game in 1923, 0.83 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 129 games (10.4% of the total), and 357 of the 1,232 decided games were settled by a single run (29.0%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 11, 1923, when the Philadelphia Phillies beat the St. Louis Cardinals 20–14 — 34 combined runs. The widest margin was 24 runs: the Cleveland Guardians over the Boston Red Sox 27–3 on July 7, 1923.
One final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1923: 27–3. 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 live-ball era that followed the 1920 rule changes, when scoring rose sharply and stayed high.