Every final score posted during the 1996 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 1996 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1996 season produced 2,299 games between 28 clubs, running from March 31, 1996 to October 26, 1996. Those games ended in 143 different final scores, 32 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 122 times — 5.3% of the season's games. The season also produced one tie game, which sits on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 10.05 runs per game in 1996, 1.26 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 200 games (8.7% of the total), and 662 of the 2,298 decided games were settled by a single run (28.8%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on April 24, 1996, when the Minnesota Twins beat the Detroit Tigers 24–11 — 35 combined runs. The widest margin was 19 runs: the Texas Rangers over the Baltimore Orioles 26–7 on April 19, 1996.
One final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1996: 24–11. That square is a true scorigami — across every season played to that point, no game had ever ended on exactly those numbers.
This season falls in the years of the last two expansions and the high-offense stretch that followed them.