Every final score posted during the 1930 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 1930 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1930 season produced 1,240 games between 16 clubs, running from April 14, 1930 to October 8, 1930. Those games ended in 152 different final scores, 46 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 5–4, posted 66 times — 5.3% of the season's games. The season also produced two tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 11.07 runs per game in 1930, 2.28 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. That is the highest scoring rate among the 125 seasons since 1901. Shutouts accounted for 95 games (7.7% of the total), and 366 of the 1,238 decided games were settled by a single run (29.6%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on September 23, 1930, when the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 19–16 — 35 combined runs. The widest margin was 18 runs: the Cleveland Guardians over the Philadelphia Athletics 25–7 on May 11, 1930.
Two final scores appeared for the first time in major league history during 1930: 19–14, 19–16. Each one is a scorigami — a combination of winning and losing runs that no game had produced before.
This season was the high-water mark of live-ball offense. Scoring reached a level not seen again until the late 1990s.