Every final score posted during the 1951 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 1951 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1951 season produced 1,245 games between 16 clubs, running from April 16, 1951 to October 10, 1951. Those games ended in 110 different final scores, 28 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 73 times — 5.9% of the season's games. The season also produced four tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 9.09 runs per game in 1951, 0.30 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 174 games (14.0% of the total), and 376 of the 1,241 decided games were settled by a single run (30.3%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 23, 1951, when the Boston Braves beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 15–14 — 29 combined runs. The widest margin was 17 runs: the Philadelphia Phillies over the Pittsburgh Pirates 17–0 on May 20, 1951.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1951. 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.