Every final score posted during the 1929 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 1929 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1929 season produced 1,234 games between 16 clubs, running from April 16, 1929 to October 14, 1929. Those games ended in 130 different final scores, 36 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 59 times — 4.8% of the season's games. The season also produced eight tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 10.36 runs per game in 1929, 1.57 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. That is the 3rd-highest scoring rate among the 125 seasons since 1901. Shutouts accounted for 118 games (9.6% of the total), and 353 of the 1,226 decided games were settled by a single run (28.8%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 18, 1929, when the Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 20–16 — 36 combined runs. The widest margin was 22 runs: the St. Louis Cardinals over the Philadelphia Phillies 28–6 on July 6, 1929.
Two final scores appeared for the first time in major league history during 1929: 20–16, 28–6. Each one is a scorigami — a combination of winning and losing runs that no game had produced before.
This season belongs to the live-ball era that followed the 1920 rule changes, when scoring rose sharply and stayed high.