Every final score posted during the 1942 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 1942 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1942 season produced 1,229 games between 16 clubs, running from April 14, 1942 to October 5, 1942. Those games ended in 100 different final scores, 22 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 80 times — 6.5% of the season's games. The season also produced nine tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.17 runs per game in 1942, 0.62 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 179 games (14.6% of the total), and 382 of the 1,220 decided games were settled by a single run (31.3%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on June 28, 1942, when the Washington Senators beat the St. Louis Browns 14–13 — 27 combined runs. The widest margin was 15 runs: the Boston Red Sox over the Philadelphia Athletics 19–4 on April 16, 1942.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1942. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
Wartime service began drawing established players off major league rosters, a drain that deepened through 1945.