Every final score posted during the 1962 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 1962 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1962 season produced 1,628 games between 20 clubs, running from April 9, 1962 to October 16, 1962. Those games ended in 114 different final scores, 32 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 98 times — 6.0% of the season's games. The season also produced three tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.91 runs per game in 1962, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 201 games (12.3% of the total), and 504 of the 1,625 decided games were settled by a single run (31.0%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on August 19, 1962, when the New York Yankees beat the Kansas City Athletics 21–7 — 28 combined runs. The widest margin was 15 runs: the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Philadelphia Phillies 16–1 on July 4, 1962.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1962. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
The National League expanded to ten clubs and adopted the 162-game schedule, bringing both leagues to the same length.