Every final score posted during the 1959 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 1959 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1959 season produced 1,244 games between 16 clubs, running from April 9, 1959 to October 8, 1959. Those games ended in 104 different final scores, 28 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 81 times — 6.5% of the season's games. The season also produced four tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.76 runs per game in 1959, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 173 games (13.9% of the total), and 390 of the 1,240 decided games were settled by a single run (31.5%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on August 13, 1959, when the Chicago Cubs beat the San Francisco Giants 20–9 — 29 combined runs. The widest margin was 16 runs: the Kansas City Athletics over the Chicago White Sox 16–0 on May 23, 1959.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1959. 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.