Every final score posted during the 1999 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 1999 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1999 season produced 2,459 games between 30 clubs, running from April 4, 1999 to October 27, 1999. Those games ended in 144 different final scores, 40 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 4–3, posted 124 times — 5.0% of the season's games. The season also produced one tie game, which sits on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 10.16 runs per game in 1999, 1.37 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 196 games (8.0% of the total), and 683 of the 2,458 decided games were settled by a single run (27.8%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 19, 1999, when the Cincinnati Reds beat the Colorado Rockies 24–12 — 36 combined runs. The widest margin was 21 runs: the Baltimore Orioles over the Atlanta Braves 22–1 on June 13, 1999.
One final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1999: 24–12. 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.