Every final score posted during the 1940 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 1940 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1940 season produced 1,243 games between 16 clubs, running from April 16, 1940 to October 8, 1940. Those games ended in 124 different final scores, 35 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 71 times — 5.7% of the season's games. The season also produced seven tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 9.35 runs per game in 1940, 0.56 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 145 games (11.7% of the total), and 375 of the 1,236 decided games were settled by a single run (30.3%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on September 8, 1940, when the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals 16–14 — 30 combined runs. The widest margin was 21 runs: the Cincinnati Reds over the Brooklyn Dodgers 23–2 on June 8, 1940.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1940. 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.