Every final score posted during the 1966 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 1966 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1966 season produced 1,619 games between 20 clubs, running from April 11, 1966 to October 9, 1966. Those games ended in 100 different final scores, 27 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 105 times — 6.5% of the season's games. The season also produced two tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 7.98 runs per game in 1966, 0.81 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 249 games (15.4% of the total), and 528 of the 1,617 decided games were settled by a single run (32.7%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on April 26, 1966, when the New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs 14–11 — 25 combined runs. The widest margin was 16 runs: the Atlanta Braves over the New York Mets 17–1 on June 16, 1966.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1966. 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.