Every final score posted during the 1949 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 1949 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1949 season produced 1,245 games between 16 clubs, running from April 18, 1949 to October 9, 1949. Those games ended in 117 different final scores, 32 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 74 times — 5.9% of the season's games. The season also produced eight tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 9.21 runs per game in 1949, 0.42 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 179 games (14.4% of the total), and 358 of the 1,237 decided games were settled by a single run (28.9%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 3, 1949, when Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers tied 14–14 for 28 combined runs. The widest margin was 19 runs: the Boston Red Sox over the St. Louis Browns 21–2 on June 24, 1949.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1949. 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.