Every final score posted during the 1965 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 1965 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1965 season produced 1,630 games between 20 clubs, running from April 12, 1965 to October 14, 1965. Those games ended in 100 different final scores, 27 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 112 times — 6.9% of the season's games. The season also produced four tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 7.97 runs per game in 1965, 0.82 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 244 games (15.0% of the total), and 512 of the 1,626 decided games were settled by a single run (31.5%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on April 27, 1965, when the San Francisco Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies 14–13 — 27 combined runs. The widest margin was 18 runs: the Cincinnati Reds over the Los Angeles Dodgers 18–0 on August 8, 1965.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1965. 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.