Every final score posted during the 1931 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 1931 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1931 season produced 1,243 games between 16 clubs, running from April 14, 1931 to October 10, 1931. Those games ended in 127 different final scores, 36 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 67 times — 5.4% of the season's games. The season also produced nine tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 9.60 runs per game in 1931, 0.81 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 134 games (10.8% of the total), and 351 of the 1,234 decided games were settled by a single run (28.4%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 12, 1931, when the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 17–13 — 30 combined runs. The widest margin was 18 runs: the New York Giants over the Philadelphia Phillies 23–5 on July 11, 1931.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1931. 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.