Every final score posted during the 1953 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 1953 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1953 season produced 1,246 games between 16 clubs, running from April 13, 1953 to October 5, 1953. Those games ended in 120 different final scores, 34 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 59 times — 4.7% of the season's games. The season also produced eleven tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 9.22 runs per game in 1953, 0.43 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 167 games (13.4% of the total), and 334 of the 1,235 decided games were settled by a single run (27.0%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on April 16, 1953, when the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Philadelphia Phillies 14–12 — 26 combined runs. The widest margin was 21 runs: the New York Yankees over the Washington Senators 22–1 on August 12, 1953.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1953. 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.