Every final score posted during the 1961 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 1961 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1961 season produced 1,435 games between 18 clubs, running from April 10, 1961 to October 9, 1961. Those games ended in 105 different final scores, 18 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 94 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 9.05 runs per game in 1961, 0.26 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 175 games (12.2% of the total), and 461 of the 1,428 decided games were settled by a single run (32.3%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 23, 1961, when the Detroit Tigers beat the Kansas City Athletics 17–14 — 31 combined runs. The widest margin was 19 runs: the Pittsburgh Pirates over the St. Louis Cardinals 19–0 on August 3, 1961.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1961. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
The American League expanded to ten clubs and moved to a 162-game schedule, lengthening the season from the 154 games played since 1904.