Every final score posted during the 2008 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 2008 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 2008 season produced 2,460 games between 30 clubs, running from March 25, 2008 to October 27, 2008. Those games ended in 126 different final scores, 30 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 135 times — 5.5% of the season's games.
Teams combined for 9.29 runs per game in 2008, 0.50 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 272 games (11.1% of the total), and 689 of the 2,460 decided games were settled by a single run (28.0%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on August 12, 2008, when the Boston Red Sox beat the Texas Rangers 19–17 — 36 combined runs. The widest margin was 18 runs: the Philadelphia Phillies over the St. Louis Cardinals 20–2 on June 13, 2008.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 2008. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
This season belongs to the current thirty-club era.