Every final score posted during the 2020 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 2020 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 2020 season produced 951 games between 30 clubs, running from July 23, 2020 to October 27, 2020. Those games ended in 107 different final scores, 33 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 5–4, posted 45 times — 4.7% of the season's games.
Teams combined for 9.26 runs per game in 2020, 0.47 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. Shutouts accounted for 107 games (11.3% of the total), and 258 of the 951 decided games were settled by a single run (27.1%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on September 9, 2020, when the Atlanta Braves beat the Miami Marlins 29–9 — 38 combined runs. It was also the season's widest margin, at 20 runs.
One final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 2020: 29–9. That square is a true scorigami — across every season played to that point, no game had ever ended on exactly those numbers.
The season was cut to sixty games per club and started in late July because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It produced fewer games than any other season in this dataset since the nineteenth century.