Every final score posted during the 1978 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 1978 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1978 season produced 2,116 games between 26 clubs, running from April 5, 1978 to October 17, 1978. Those games ended in 107 different final scores, 28 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 153 times — 7.2% of the season's games.
Teams combined for 8.22 runs per game in 1978, 0.57 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 306 games (14.5% of the total), and 709 of the 2,116 decided games were settled by a single run (33.5%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on June 26, 1978, when the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 24–10 — 34 combined runs. The widest margin was 19 runs: the Montreal Expos over the Atlanta Braves 19–0 on July 30, 1978.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1978. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
This season sits in the twenty-six-club era, after the American League's second expansion and before the additions of the 1990s.