Every final score posted during the 1939 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 1939 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1939 season produced 1,235 games between 16 clubs, running from April 17, 1939 to October 8, 1939. Those games ended in 129 different final scores, 37 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 68 times — 5.5% of the season's games. The season also produced nine tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 9.64 runs per game in 1939, 0.85 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 134 games (10.9% of the total), and 350 of the 1,226 decided games were settled by a single run (28.5%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 4, 1939, when the Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Athletics 18–12 — 30 combined runs. The widest margin was 21 runs: the New York Yankees over the Philadelphia Athletics 23–2 on June 28, 1939.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1939. 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.