A team has finished a game with 2-8-9 runs-hits-errors line 2 times since 1897, most recently St. Louis Cardinals on 14 April 1915. That is about one every 221,502 team-games.
Box score for the most recent one ↗
2-8-0 2-8-8 2-8-3 2-8-4 2-8-5 2-8-6 2-8-9 2-9-4 2-9-0 2-9-1 2-9-2 2-9-6 2-9-5
The whole distribution — Runs-Hits-Errors Lines · All 18 shapes