Every final score posted during the 1974 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 1974 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1974 season produced 1,958 games between 24 clubs, running from April 4, 1974 to October 17, 1974. Those games ended in 112 different final scores, 27 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 145 times — 7.4% of the season's games. The season also produced five tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.23 runs per game in 1974, 0.56 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 290 games (14.8% of the total), and 636 of the 1,953 decided games were settled by a single run (32.6%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on April 6, 1974, when the Kansas City Royals beat the Minnesota Twins 23–6 — 29 combined runs. It was also the season's widest margin, at 17 runs.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1974. 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.