Every final score posted during the 1976 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 1976 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1976 season produced 1,951 games between 24 clubs, running from April 8, 1976 to October 21, 1976. Those games ended in 109 different final scores, 24 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 136 times — 7.0% of the season's games.
Teams combined for 8.00 runs per game in 1976, 0.79 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 325 games (16.7% of the total), and 656 of the 1,951 decided games were settled by a single run (33.6%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on April 17, 1976, when the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs 18–16 — 34 combined runs. The widest margin was 17 runs: the Minnesota Twins over the Chicago White Sox 18–1 on September 5, 1976.
One final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1976: 18–16. That square is a true scorigami — across every season played to that point, no game had ever ended on exactly those numbers.
This season falls in the expansion era, when the leagues grew from sixteen clubs to twenty-four and the schedule moved to 162 games.