Every final score posted during the 1988 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 1988 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1988 season produced 2,116 games between 26 clubs, running from April 4, 1988 to October 20, 1988. Those games ended in 111 different final scores, 25 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 136 times — 6.4% of the season's games. The season also produced two tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.27 runs per game in 1988, 0.52 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 294 games (13.9% of the total), and 646 of the 2,114 decided games were settled by a single run (30.6%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 30, 1988, when the California Angels beat the Chicago White Sox 15–14 — 29 combined runs. The widest margin was 19 runs: the San Francisco Giants over the St. Louis Cardinals 21–2 on July 9, 1988.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1988. 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.