Every final score posted during the 1963 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 1963 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1963 season produced 1,623 games between 20 clubs, running from April 8, 1963 to October 6, 1963. Those games ended in 100 different final scores, 24 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 122 times — 7.5% of the season's games. The season also produced one tie game, which sits on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 7.88 runs per game in 1963, 0.91 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 276 games (17.0% of the total), and 531 of the 1,622 decided games were settled by a single run (32.7%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 28, 1963, when the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 16–11 — 27 combined runs. The widest margin was 17 runs: the Los Angeles Angels over the Washington Senators (expansion, 1961-71) 17–0 on August 23, 1963.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1963. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
This season falls in the expansion era, when the leagues grew from sixteen clubs to twenty-four and the schedule moved to 162 games.