Scorigami

SCORIGAMI: San Diego Padres 24, Washington Nationals 8 is the first 24-8 game in MLB history

Final · July 16, 2021

For the first time ever, MLB produced a 24-8 final. San Diego Padres beat Washington Nationals on July 16, 2021, filling a cell that had stayed empty across 235,971 games.

Where 24-8 sits among nearby MLB scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 29-9, Atlanta Braves over Miami Marlins on September 9, 2020, 10 months earlier. This is MLB's 1st new final score of the 2021 season, and the grid now holds 53.9 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 25-8 had happened 3 times and 24-9 had happened 1 time. It sits in the busy heart of the grid, proof that even an ordinary-looking score can go a league's whole history without happening.

Find it on the MLB grid More scorigamis