List of Major League Baseball annual runs scored leaders
Year Player Team ( s ) Runs
1876 Ross Barnes Chicago White Stockings 126
1877 Jim O'Rourke Boston Red Caps 68
1878 Dick Higham Providence Grays 60
1879 Charley Jones Boston Red Caps 85
1880 Abner Dalrymple Chicago White Stockings 91
1881 George Gore Chicago White Stockings 86
1882 George Gore Chicago White Stockings 99
1883 Joe Hornung Boston Beaneaters 107
1884 King Kelly Chicago White Stockings 120
1885 King Kelly Chicago White Stockings 124
1886 King Kelly Chicago White Stockings 155
1887 Dan Brouthers Detroit Wolverines 153
1888 Dan Brouthers Detroit Wolverines 118
1889 Mike Tiernan New York Giants 147
1890 Hub Collins Brooklyn Bridegrooms 148
1891 Billy Hamilton Philadelphia Phillies 141
1892 Cupid Childs Cleveland Spiders 136
1893 Herman Long Boston Beaneaters 149
1894 Billy Hamilton Philadelphia Phillies 198
1895 Billy Hamilton Philadelphia Phillies 166
National League
Stan Musial led the National League in runs scored five times . Albert Pujols has led the National League in runs scored five times .
Major League Baseball recognizes runs scored leaders in the American League and National League each season. In baseball, a run is scored when a player advances safely around first, second and third base and returns safely to home plate, touching the bases in that order, before three outs are recorded. A player may score by hitting a home run or by any combination of plays that puts him safely on base (that is, on first, second, or third) as a runner and subsequently brings him home. The object of the game is for a team to score more runs than its opponent. In baseball statistics, a player who advances around all the bases to score is credited with a run (R), sometimes referred to as a run scored. While runs scored is considered an important individual batting statistic, it is regarded as less significant than runs batted in (RBIs) - superiority in the latter, for instance, is one of the elements of the exceptional batting achievement known as the Triple Crown. Both individual runs scored and runs batted in are heavily context-dependent; for a more sophisticated assessment of a player's contribution toward producing runs for his team, see runs created.