Every final score posted during the 1957 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 1957 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1957 season produced 1,242 games between 16 clubs, running from April 15, 1957 to October 10, 1957. Those games ended in 106 different final scores, 33 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 90 times — 7.2% of the season's games. The season also produced five tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.60 runs per game in 1957, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 153 games (12.3% of the total), and 399 of the 1,237 decided games were settled by a single run (32.3%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on September 2, 1957, when the Milwaukee Braves beat the Chicago Cubs 23–10 — 33 combined runs. The widest margin was 20 runs: the Cincinnati Reds over the Chicago Cubs 22–2 on June 1, 1957.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1957. 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.