I became inspired by the Buffalo and Baltimore football game that finished at 41-40.  That score had never happened in an NFL game before.  People that track that sort of thing call it a scorigami.  There have been over 18,000 NFL games.  That got me thinking about BaseHit and the 37,488,815 games that have been simmed (and recorded in the database).  I pulled this data on 9/9/2025 after the 9pm sim, so it was current for a couple hours, then I got caught up in something else, and now it’s thousands of games behind.  I did check before I made this, there have been no more outlier games, the information at the end is accurate. But here’s my run at a BaseHit scorigami.

I broke the games into groups arbitrarily mostly to see if my database query would take a long time.  The first group of game had a gameid of less than 100,000.  Of those ids, almost 20,000 games have survived league purges and anything else that would cause data loss.  

In that group of 20,000 games, every score in which the winner scored 18 or less runs happened. 18-17 through 18-0, all the way down to 1-0.  There were plenty of wild games as well.  The wildest was a 31-22 game which is the BaseHit record for total runs in a game at 53.  There were 3 other games when the losing team scored 20+ runs and 2 other games where the winning team scored 30.  Runs were flowing in the early days.

Next, I looked at games with Games with an id of less than 200,000. Surprisingly, this only increased the number of games to 30,000.  In that group, there were 25 new unique scores that didn’t happen in the first group.  A new high score was set in winning team runs at 34, and there was a game with 33 as well.  We now have 7 total games where a team scores 30 runs.  

Next group was IDs less than 400,000, which doubled the number of games recorded to almost 60K.  34 new scores occurred.  Every score with the winner having 19 runs has now happened.  There have been 12 games with the winning team scoring 30+ runs but none of the previous records were bested.

The 4th group was gameIDs less than 800,000, which returned almost 120K games.  31 new scores were achieved.  20-19 and 21-17 are preventing a complete set of 20s and 21s.

The 5th group was gameIDs lower than 1.5M, which resulted in 225K total games.  23 new scores happened.  All the 20s and 21s are in the record book.  We have a new runs record with a 37-2 game and a 35-10 also beating the previous record.  

Then I got impatient and got all the games.  37,488,814 games.  117 new scores occurred in the mass batch.  As you’d expect, the runs record falls in the group of 37+M games instead of the 225K group.  41 runs is the highest scoring single team game. There was also a 40-9 game.  

Here is the outcomes chart. Do you like walls of numbers?

winruns	L Runs 0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	Grand Total
1	491492																								491492
2	877046	811586																							1688632
3	1552689	768780	1195571																						3517040
4	1890207	673677	1026662	1286718																					4877264
5	1808699	559226	836014	1025565	1118202																				5347706
6	1466682	442532	655985	786746	845955	846028																			5043928
7	1056385	342928	505513	595698	624585	615651	578899																		4319659
8	698824	259081	379581	447339	458550	440649	408478	367301																	3459803
9	433180	191223	280322	328416	336653	314544	283103	251943	220368																2639752
10	255171	137533	202474	236890	241030	224600	196714	170668	147121	125080															1937281
11	142176	96910	141893	166766	169759	157816	137407	114888	97058	81980	67950														1374603
12	76465	67191	98232	115103	116433	108419	94132	78580	64026	52583	43302	34821													949287
13	39123	44923	66393	78582	79698	73740	63370	53049	42902	34056	27099	22190	17456												642581
14	18965	30467	44748	51933	53291	49269	42327	35016	28415	22317	17287	13514	10900	8634											427083
15	9310	20061	29256	34400	34926	32583	28146	23208	18572	14709	11384	8620	6507	5087	3982										280751
16	4400	13077	19042	22337	22793	21283	18181	15042	12154	9437	7244	5417	3938	3033	2305	1855									181538
17	1949	8524	12359	14145	14574	13419	11690	9728	7773	6109	4629	3490	2458	1827	1351	1136	827								115988
18	895	5562	7764	9138	9433	8575	7527	6166	4918	3906	3019	2252	1605	1089	793	662	489	333							74126
19	365	3495	4957	5883	5793	5275	4671	3796	3216	2438	1898	1418	1017	703	530	370	268	188	136						46417
20	154	2104	3125	3567	3539	3279	2923	2382	1960	1597	1130	875	609	417	313	218	138	96	77	73					28576
21	64	1281	1845	2187	2312	2055	1793	1545	1178	913	691	522	411	281	175	133	88	81	51	46	22				17674
22	30	786	1155	1388	1359	1252	1147	945	734	601	467	334	211	165	102	88	54	35	29	15	20	18			10935
23	13	497	716	819	803	745	653	576	462	387	286	181	131	91	65	54	23	20	22	14	5	8			6571
24	8	315	441	523	492	456	408	347	245	202	192	117	67	60	32	31	25	19	9	7	6	1	1	4	4008
25	1	206	270	329	310	273	239	203	174	119	100	69	44	40	30	14	10	9	5	2		3	2	1	2453
26	1	123	135	180	214	151	135	125	93	75	66	41	29	21	11	10	14	2	2	2			3		1433
27	1	73	112	133	114	116	90	78	53	43	26	22	14	19	10	11	7	5	3		2	2			934
28	1	44	43	72	67	57	54	34	40	27	15	22	16	7	7	2	1	3	1			4		3	520
29	1	20	42	39	50	34	39	31	22	12	14	6	8	5	2	3	3					5			336
30	1	19	23	15	15	20	17	13	10	13	5	8	4	4	3	1	1		2						174
31	1	8	16	12	11	17	7	9	11	7	6			5			2						1		113
32	1	5	3	12	7	3	5	1		5	3	4	1	3											53
33	1	2	5	6	6	3	2	2	3	2	1	3			1										37
34	1	5	3	1	1	2	6	2	2	1		1													25
35	1	1	3	4	3		2	1	1		1														17
36	1		1		1	1			2																6
37	1	2	1		2	1	2		1																10
38		1	2																						3
39	2	2																							3
40										1															1
41							1																		1
Grand Total	10824306	4482270	5514707	5214946	4140981	2920316	1882168	1135679	651514	356620	186815	93927	45426	21491	9712	4588	1950	791	337	159	55	41	7	8	37488814

We can use this data to come up with many site-wide stats.

Single Game Scoring Record

41-6 Arlington Park Thoroughbreds; Balmers – Arlington Park won 111 games and scored almost 900 runs, but the true hero here is the Toms River Shorebirds who allowed 1135 runs in the season. Kudos to philsrule06 for still owning the team. My heart goes out to rookie, Joseph Click, who took 21 runs for the team as the last pitcher available. His ERA went from a respectable 4.12 to 11.35 after that one.

40-9

39-0

39-0

39-1

38-1

38-1

38-2

10 games with 37

Single Game, Both Teams

53, 31-22,

51, 28-23

50, 29-21 

Most Runs for a Losing Team

23, eight times

330,692,096 Runs Scored; 9.06 per game

245,718,954 Winning Team Runs Scored; 6.55 per game

93,973,142 Losing Team Runs Scored; 2.51 per game

6,103,538 games where winning team scored 10+ runs; 16.2%

73,883 games where winning team score 20+ runs; 0.19%

443 games where winning team score 30+ runs; 0.001%

365,307 games where losing team scored 10+ runs; 0.97%