Every final score posted during the 1958 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 1958 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1958 season produced 1,242 games between 16 clubs, running from April 14, 1958 to October 9, 1958. Those games ended in 101 different final scores, 22 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 83 times — 6.7% of the season's games. The season also produced four tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.56 runs per game in 1958, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 148 games (11.9% of the total), and 392 of the 1,238 decided games were settled by a single run (31.7%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 13, 1958, when the San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 16–9 — 25 combined runs. The widest margin was 17 runs: the San Francisco Giants over the Philadelphia Phillies 19–2 on September 12, 1958.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1958. 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.