Every final score posted during the 1979 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 1979 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1979 season produced 2,113 games between 26 clubs, running from April 4, 1979 to October 17, 1979. Those games ended in 121 different final scores, 33 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 142 times — 6.7% of the season's games. The season also produced three tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.91 runs per game in 1979, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 239 games (11.3% of the total), and 691 of the 2,110 decided games were settled by a single run (32.7%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 17, 1979, when the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs 23–22 — 45 combined runs. The widest margin was 22 runs: the California Angels over the Toronto Blue Jays 24–2 on August 25, 1979.
One final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1979: 23–22. That square is a true scorigami — across every season played to that point, no game had ever ended on exactly those numbers.
This season sits in the twenty-six-club era, after the American League's second expansion and before the additions of the 1990s.