Scorigami

SCORIGAMI: Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 22, Orix Buffaloes 6 is the first 22-6 game in NPB (Japan) history

Final · May 24, 2016

NPB (Japan) got a brand-new final score on May 24, 2016. Fukuoka Softbank Hawks beat Orix Buffaloes 22-6, and in every NPB (Japan) game since 1950, no game had ever ended that way before.

Where 22-6 sits among nearby NPB (Japan) scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 21-10, Orix Buffaloes over Hiroshima Toyo Carp on June 7, 2010, 5 years and 12 months earlier. This is NPB (Japan)'s 1st new final score of the 2016 season, and the grid now holds 59.6 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 23-6 had still never happened and 22-7 had happened 1 time. It lands on the high-scoring frontier of the grid, the sparse territory that only fills in on the rare night the points pile up.

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