Every final score posted during the 1977 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 1977 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1977 season produced 2,118 games between 26 clubs, running from April 6, 1977 to October 18, 1977. Those games ended in 118 different final scores, 30 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 128 times — 6.0% of the season's games.
Teams combined for 8.94 runs per game in 1977, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 238 games (11.2% of the total), and 637 of the 2,118 decided games were settled by a single run (30.1%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on April 25, 1977, when the Cincinnati Reds beat the Atlanta Braves 23–9 — 32 combined runs. The widest margin was 18 runs: the St. Louis Cardinals over the Chicago Cubs 21–3 on April 27, 1977.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1977. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
The American League expanded to fourteen clubs with the addition of Seattle and Toronto.