Every final score posted during the 1998 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 1998 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1998 season produced 2,462 games between 30 clubs, running from March 31, 1998 to October 21, 1998. Those games ended in 134 different final scores, 28 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 136 times — 5.5% of the season's games. The season also produced two tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 9.55 runs per game in 1998, 0.76 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 250 games (10.2% of the total), and 702 of the 2,460 decided games were settled by a single run (28.5%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on September 14, 1998, when the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 17–16 — 33 combined runs. The widest margin was 17 runs: the Cincinnati Reds over the Milwaukee Brewers 17–0 on August 7, 1998.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1998. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
Arizona and Tampa Bay joined as expansion clubs, bringing the majors to the thirty teams that still make up the leagues today.