Every final score posted during the 1970 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 1970 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1970 season produced 1,955 games between 24 clubs, running from April 6, 1970 to October 15, 1970. Those games ended in 114 different final scores, 24 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 123 times — 6.3% of the season's games. The season also produced one tie game, which sits on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.69 runs per game in 1970, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 235 games (12.0% of the total), and 624 of the 1,954 decided games were settled by a single run (31.9%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 31, 1970, when the Chicago White Sox beat the Boston Red Sox 22–13 — 35 combined runs. The widest margin was 16 runs: the Baltimore Orioles over the Chicago White Sox 18–2 on April 29, 1970.
Two final scores appeared for the first time in major league history during 1970: 21–11, 22–13. Each one is a scorigami — a combination of winning and losing runs that no game had produced before.
This season falls in the expansion era, when the leagues grew from sixteen clubs to twenty-four and the schedule moved to 162 games.