Every final score posted during the 1986 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 1986 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1986 season produced 2,123 games between 26 clubs, running from April 7, 1986 to October 27, 1986. Those games ended in 110 different final scores, 23 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 119 times — 5.6% of the season's games. The season also produced one tie game, which sits on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.81 runs per game in 1986, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 238 games (11.2% of the total), and 671 of the 2,122 decided games were settled by a single run (31.6%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on August 21, 1986, when the Boston Red Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 24–5 — 29 combined runs. It was also the season's widest margin, at 19 runs.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1986. 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.