Every final score posted during the 2016 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 2016 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 2016 season produced 2,463 games between 30 clubs, running from April 3, 2016 to November 2, 2016. Those games ended in 120 different final scores, 21 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 152 times — 6.2% of the season's games. The season also produced one tie game, which sits on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 8.93 runs per game in 2016, almost exactly the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 286 games (11.6% of the total), and 700 of the 2,462 decided games were settled by a single run (28.4%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on June 2, 2016, when the Seattle Mariners beat the San Diego Padres 16–13 — 29 combined runs. The widest margin was 19 runs: the Los Angeles Angels over the Boston Red Sox 21–2 on July 2, 2016.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 2016. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
This season belongs to the current thirty-club era.