Every final score posted during the 1947 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 1947 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1947 season produced 1,250 games between 16 clubs, running from April 15, 1947 to October 6, 1947. Those games ended in 111 different final scores, 25 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 eleven tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.72 runs per game in 1947, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 184 games (14.7% of the total), and 370 of the 1,239 decided games were settled by a single run (29.9%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on August 20, 1947, when the New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 14–13 — 27 combined runs. The widest margin was 17 runs: the New York Giants over the Brooklyn Dodgers 19–2 on July 3, 1947.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1947. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
Jackie Robinson debuted for Brooklyn this season, ending the colour line that had excluded Black players from the major leagues since the 1880s.