Every final score posted during the 1972 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 1972 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1972 season produced 1,876 games between 24 clubs, running from April 15, 1972 to October 22, 1972. Those games ended in 99 different final scores, 22 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 2–1, posted 152 times — 8.1% of the season's games. The season also produced one tie game, which sits on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 7.36 runs per game in 1972, 1.43 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 360 games (19.2% of the total), and 622 of the 1,875 decided games were settled by a single run (33.2%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on June 3, 1972, when the New York Yankees beat the Chicago White Sox 18–10 — 28 combined runs. The widest margin was 15 runs: the Kansas City Royals over the Oakland Athletics 16–1 on May 19, 1972.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1972. 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.