Every final score posted during the 1956 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 1956 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1956 season produced 1,246 games between 16 clubs, running from April 17, 1956 to October 10, 1956. Those games ended in 114 different final scores, 28 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 82 times — 6.6% of the season's games. The season also produced seven tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.90 runs per game in 1956, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 138 games (11.1% of the total), and 364 of the 1,239 decided games were settled by a single run (29.4%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 1, 1956, when the Cincinnati Reds beat the St. Louis Cardinals 19–15 — 34 combined runs. The widest margin was 18 runs: the Chicago White Sox over the Washington Senators 20–2 on June 17, 1956.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1956. 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.