Every final score posted during the 1973 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 1973 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1973 season produced 1,960 games between 24 clubs, running from April 5, 1973 to October 21, 1973. Those games ended in 113 different final scores, 25 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 117 times — 6.0% of the season's games. The season also produced one tie game, which sits on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.41 runs per game in 1973, 0.38 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 297 games (15.2% of the total), and 595 of the 1,959 decided games were settled by a single run (30.4%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 3, 1973, when the Montreal Expos beat the New York Mets 19–8 — 27 combined runs. The widest margin was 15 runs: the Oakland Athletics over the Texas Rangers 17–2 on May 10, 1973.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1973. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
The American League adopted the designated hitter this season. The National League did not follow until 2022.