Every final score posted during the 1971 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 1971 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1971 season produced 1,952 games between 24 clubs, running from April 5, 1971 to October 17, 1971. Those games ended in 94 different final scores, 15 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 136 times — 7.0% of the season's games. The season also produced one tie game, which sits on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 7.78 runs per game in 1971, 1.01 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 316 games (16.2% of the total), and 650 of the 1,951 decided games were settled by a single run (33.3%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on June 20, 1971, when the Chicago White Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 18–8 — 26 combined runs. The widest margin was 14 runs: the Cincinnati Reds over the Montreal Expos 14–0 on June 29, 1971.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1971. 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.