The 50 batters with the most runs scored, 1871–2021

Every batter on this list is ranked on one number: runs scored in the regular season between 1871 and 2021. Nothing else is weighed, and the figures each ranking rests on are in the table.

Runs scored — the leading 15. Every one of the 50 is in the table below.

#	Player	Seasons	Runs scored	Games	Hits	HR
1	Rickey Henderson	1979–2003	2,295	3,081	3,055	297
2	Ty Cobb	1905–1928	2,247	3,035	4,189	117
3	Barry Bonds	1986–2007	2,227	2,986	2,935	762
4	Babe Ruth	1914–1935	2,174	2,503	2,873	714
4	Hank Aaron	1954–1976	2,174	3,298	3,771	755
6	Pete Rose	1963–1986	2,165	3,562	4,256	160
7	Willie Mays	1951–1973	2,062	2,992	3,283	660
8	Alex Rodriguez	1994–2016	2,021	2,784	3,115	696
9	Cap Anson	1871–1897	1,999	2,524	3,435	97
10	Stan Musial	1941–1963	1,949	3,026	3,630	475
11	Derek Jeter	1995–2014	1,923	2,747	3,465	260
12	Lou Gehrig	1923–1939	1,888	2,164	2,721	493
13	Tris Speaker	1907–1928	1,882	2,789	3,514	117
14	Albert Pujols	2001–2021	1,872	2,971	3,301	679
15	Mel Ott	1926–1947	1,859	2,730	2,876	511
16	Craig Biggio	1988–2007	1,844	2,850	3,060	291
17	Frank Robinson	1956–1976	1,829	2,808	2,943	586
18	Eddie Collins	1906–1930	1,821	2,826	3,315	47
19	Carl Yastrzemski	1961–1983	1,816	3,308	3,419	452
20	Ted Williams	1939–1960	1,798	2,292	2,654	521
21	Paul Molitor	1978–1998	1,782	2,683	3,319	234
22	Charlie Gehringer	1924–1942	1,774	2,323	2,839	184
23	Jimmie Foxx	1925–1945	1,751	2,317	2,646	534
24	Honus Wagner	1897–1917	1,739	2,794	3,420	101
25	Jim O'Rourke	1872–1904	1,729	1,999	2,639	62
26	Jesse Burkett	1890–1905	1,720	2,067	2,850	75
27	Willie Keeler	1892–1910	1,719	2,123	2,932	33
28	Billy Hamilton	1888–1901	1,697	1,594	2,164	40
29	Bid McPhee	1882–1899	1,684	2,138	2,258	53
30	Mickey Mantle	1951–1968	1,677	2,401	2,415	536
31	Dave Winfield	1973–1995	1,669	2,973	3,110	465
32	Johnny Damon	1995–2012	1,668	2,490	2,769	235
33	Rafael Palmeiro	1986–2005	1,663	2,831	3,020	569
34	Ken Griffey	1989–2010	1,662	2,671	2,781	630
35	Joe Morgan	1963–1984	1,650	2,649	2,517	268
36	Cal Ripken	1981–2001	1,647	3,001	3,184	431
37	Jimmy Ryan	1885–1903	1,643	2,014	2,513	118
38	George Van Haltren	1887–1903	1,642	1,990	2,544	69
39	Gary Sheffield	1988–2009	1,636	2,576	2,689	509
40	Robin Yount	1974–1993	1,632	2,856	3,142	251
41	Paul Waner	1926–1945	1,627	2,549	3,152	113
41	Eddie Murray	1977–1997	1,627	3,026	3,255	504
43	Fred Clarke	1894–1915	1,622	2,246	2,678	67
43	Al Kaline	1953–1974	1,622	2,834	3,007	399
45	Roger Connor	1880–1897	1,620	1,998	2,467	138
46	Chipper Jones	1993–2012	1,619	2,499	2,726	468
47	Lou Brock	1961–1979	1,610	2,616	3,023	149
48	Jake Beckley	1888–1907	1,603	2,392	2,938	87
49	Ed Delahanty	1888–1903	1,600	1,837	2,597	101
50	Bill Dahlen	1891–1911	1,590	2,444	2,461	84

How this list is made

Ranked on runs scored in the regular season, 1871–2021. Players are ranked on that number alone and on nothing else: there is no judgement here about who was better. Where two are level they share a rank, and the list runs past fifty when fiftieth place is shared, because splitting a tie would mean choosing between them on no stated basis.

The Negro Leagues are not in these figures. Major League Baseball recognised the Negro Leagues as major-league in December 2020 and added their statistics to the official record in May 2024. This database does not carry them: Josh Gibson, Oscar Charleston, Buck Leonard and Cool Papa Bell are absent from it altogether, and Satchel Paige appears only from 1948, his American League seasons. These lists are therefore not the complete official record, and that is a limit of the source rather than a judgement about who belongs on them.

Counting statistics only. A rate — an average, a percentage — needs a minimum number of appearances before it means anything, and no such minimum is published that this site could cite. Inventing one would put a number nobody chose at the centre of a ranking. A total needs no cut-off: most goals is a fact with nothing hidden in it.

Some of these careers were not over. Albert Pujols played in 2021, the last season this database covers, so their totals are what they had reached by then. This site has no source for what has happened since.

Career figures from the Lahman Baseball Database via the Chadwick Bureau’s Baseball Databank, CC BY-SA 3.0. Regular season only; the post-season is not counted.

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