Every final score posted during the 1968 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 1968 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1968 season produced 1,632 games between 20 clubs, running from April 10, 1968 to October 10, 1968. Those games ended in 89 different final scores, 21 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 135 times — 8.3% of the season's games. The season also produced six tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 6.84 runs per game in 1968, 1.95 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. That is the 2nd-lowest scoring rate among the 125 seasons since 1901. Shutouts accounted for 340 games (20.8% of the total), and 575 of the 1,626 decided games were settled by a single run (35.4%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 4, 1968, when the Detroit Tigers beat the California Angels 13–10 — 23 combined runs. The widest margin was 18 runs: the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Cincinnati Reds 19–1 on August 21, 1968.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1968. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
This season became known afterwards as the Year of the Pitcher. Offense fell so far that the rules were changed for the following season.