Every final score posted during the 1948 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 1948 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1948 season produced 1,243 games between 16 clubs, running from April 19, 1948 to October 11, 1948. Those games ended in 115 different final scores, 31 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 67 times — 5.4% of the season's games. The season also produced seven tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 9.14 runs per game in 1948, 0.35 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 150 games (12.1% of the total), and 343 of the 1,236 decided games were settled by a single run (27.8%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on August 12, 1948, when the Cleveland Guardians beat the St. Louis Browns 26–3 — 29 combined runs. It was also the season's widest margin, at 23 runs.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1948. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
This season sits in the years around the Second World War and the integration of the major leagues, played by sixteen clubs on a 154-game schedule.