Every final score posted during the 1987 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 1987 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1987 season produced 2,124 games between 26 clubs, running from April 6, 1987 to October 25, 1987. Those games ended in 119 different final scores, 24 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 126 times — 5.9% of the season's games.
Teams combined for 9.44 runs per game in 1987, 0.65 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 215 games (10.1% of the total), and 603 of the 2,124 decided games were settled by a single run (28.4%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on August 16, 1987, when the New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs 23–10 — 33 combined runs. The widest margin was 17 runs: the Chicago White Sox over the Cleveland Guardians 17–0 on July 5, 1987.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1987. 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.