Every final score posted during the 1954 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 1954 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1954 season produced 1,241 games between 16 clubs, running from April 13, 1954 to October 2, 1954. Those games ended in 112 different final scores, 30 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 2–1, posted 73 times — 5.9% of the season's games. The season also produced six tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.75 runs per game in 1954, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 174 games (14.0% of the total), and 379 of the 1,235 decided games were settled by a single run (30.7%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on April 17, 1954, when the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 23–13 — 36 combined runs. The widest margin was 18 runs: the Boston Red Sox over the Philadelphia Athletics 18–0 on July 11, 1954.
One final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1954: 23–13. That square is a true scorigami — across every season played to that point, no game had ever ended on exactly those numbers.
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.