Every final score posted during the 1997 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 1997 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1997 season produced 2,300 games between 28 clubs, running from April 1, 1997 to October 26, 1997. Those games ended in 123 different final scores, 20 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 108 times — 4.7% of the season's games.
Teams combined for 9.52 runs per game in 1997, 0.73 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 214 games (9.3% of the total), and 648 of the 2,300 decided games were settled by a single run (28.2%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on April 5, 1997, when the Detroit Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 15–12 — 27 combined runs. The widest margin was 16 runs: the Montreal Expos over the San Francisco Giants 19–3 on May 7, 1997.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1997. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
This season falls in the years of the last two expansions and the high-offense stretch that followed them.