The Atlanta Braves went 86-76 in 2009, a .531 winning percentage — 12th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 735 runs and allowed 641, a run differential of +94. The offence ranked 17th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.60 staff ERA was the third best. Their 100 team wRC+ was 0% below league average — 14th of 30 in MLB. Brian McCann led the position players at 3.8 WAR, and Javier Vazquez the rotation at a 2.87 ERA.
The 2009 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the NL East, 7 games back. They spent 6 of 185 days in first place, led by as many as 0.5 games on April 5 and were as far as 9 games back on September 9. Their best month was August at 17-11, their worst June at 11-15. The longest runs were a 7-game winning streak from September 10 to September 17 and a 6-game losing streak from September 29 to October 4. They were 40-41 at home and 46-35 on the road, 27-25 in one-run games and 40-39 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 15-2 at the Mets on August 19; the heaviest defeat, 12-0 against the Diamondbacks on May 16.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
10
11
.476
85
90
-5
May
15
14
.517
135
134
+1
June
11
15
.423
93
109
-16
July
16
11
.593
139
94
+45
August
17
11
.607
144
101
+43
Sept/Oct
17
14
.548
139
113
+26
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
40-41
.494
Road
46-35
.568
One-run games
27-25
.519
Extra innings
9-7
.563
Within the division
41-31
.569
Against .500+ clubs
40-39
.506
Decided by 5+ runs
29-14
.674
Last 10
4-6
.400
National League East standings, 2009
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League East, 2009. Games back of the best record in the division.
The players whose season belongs to this club, by position and then by dbWAR. A player traded mid-season is listed with the club he played most of his games for, so a deadline arrival may appear on his other club’s page instead.
Each rectangle is a player, sized by his share of the team's hits; darker means a larger share. Top 30 contributors. Select a different statistic above, or click a player for his page.
Day and night divide the home schedule, and so do weekend and weekday. The road line is a different question.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Low
High
All home
81
29,304
28,669
15,364
51,175
Night
62
28,110
26,361
15,364
50,704
Day
19
33,199
30,478
19,873
51,175
Weekend
38
33,976
32,657
19,873
51,175
Weekday
43
25,175
21,988
15,364
47,508
On the road
81
31,612
33,015
12,244
53,338
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
23,676
May
14
24,150
Jun
17
33,853
Jul
11
35,556
Aug
14
28,083
Sep
12
27,226
Oct
4
33,987
By season
Announced gate — tickets distributed, which is the figure every reference publishes and is not the same as people through the turnstile. A game the feed reports no gate for is left out rather than counted as empty. Seasons before attendance was carried into the lake are absent from the trend rather than shown as zero.
Game time
First pitch to final out across 161 completed games, 2009.
Regulation
2:49
145 games
All games
2:54
Extra innings
3:37
16 of them
Longest
4:46
2009-06-08, 15 inn
Shortest
2:19
2009-05-22
By situation
Regulation and extra innings divide the season, and so do home and road. Day and night overlap both.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Fastest
Longest
All
161
2:54
2:49
2:08
4:46
Regulation
145
2:49
2:47
2:08
3:49
Extra innings
16
3:37
3:35
2:55
4:46
Home
81
2:56
2:49
2:19
4:46
Road
80
2:52
2:49
2:08
4:20
Day
45
2:56
2:50
2:08
4:18
Night
116
2:53
2:48
2:08
4:46
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
2:51
May
14
2:50
Jun
17
3:05
Jul
11
2:50
Aug
14
2:56
Sep
12
2:52
Oct
4
3:19
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 169 minutes this season.
Elapsed time from first pitch to final out. The feed does not itemise delays, so a rain delay is inside these numbers with no way to subtract it. Games called early are excluded — five innings in ninety-three minutes is not a short game — but they still count in attendance, because the crowd turned up.
Record versus run differential
Atlanta Braves are 86-76, a .531 win rate, while their +94 run differential implies .562. That is about 5 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
