Every final score posted during the 1928 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 1928 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1928 season produced 1,235 games between 16 clubs, running from April 10, 1928 to October 9, 1928. Those games ended in 118 different final scores, 29 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 84 times — 6.8% of the season's games. The season also produced four tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 9.46 runs per game in 1928, 0.67 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 128 games (10.4% of the total), and 374 of the 1,231 decided games were settled by a single run (30.4%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on June 2, 1928, when the Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Braves 20–12 — 32 combined runs. The widest margin was 18 runs: the Cleveland Guardians over the New York Yankees 24–6 on July 29, 1928.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1928. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
This season belongs to the live-ball era that followed the 1920 rule changes, when scoring rose sharply and stayed high.