The Atlanta Braves went 88-73 in 2021, a .547 winning percentage — 12th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 790 runs and allowed 656, a run differential of +134. The offence ranked 8th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.87 staff ERA was 8th of 30. Their 101 team wRC+ was 1% above league average — 15th of 30 in MLB. Austin Riley led the position players at 5.7 WAR, and Charlie Morton the rotation at a 3.34 ERA.
The 2021 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished first in the NL East, 6.5 games clear. They spent 51 of 186 days in first place, led by as many as 6.5 games on October 3 and were as far as 8 games back on June 16. Their best month was August at 18-8, their worst March/April at 12-14. The longest runs were a 9-game winning streak from August 13 to August 22 and a 4-game losing streak from April 1 to April 6. They were 42-38 at home and 46-35 on the road, 26-31 in one-run games and 31-37 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 20-1 against the Pirates on May 21; the heaviest defeat, 13-2 at the Mets on May 29.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
12
14
.462
122
132
-10
May
13
12
.520
126
116
+10
June
13
15
.464
127
113
+14
July
14
13
.519
132
97
+35
August
18
8
.692
134
95
+39
Sept/Oct
18
11
.621
149
103
+46
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
42-38
.525
Road
46-35
.568
One-run games
26-31
.456
Extra innings
5-9
.357
Within the division
45-31
.592
Against .500+ clubs
31-37
.456
Decided by 5+ runs
28-14
.667
Last 10
8-2
.800
National League East standings, 2021
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League East, 2021. 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
78
29,490
30,967
11,739
41,136
Night
62
29,152
29,256
11,830
41,136
Day
16
30,802
33,336
11,739
40,068
Weekend
38
33,812
36,282
14,221
41,136
Weekday
40
25,385
23,516
11,739
39,847
On the road
78
17,968
13,568
1,554
49,410
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
14,637
May
14
29,693
Jun
14
34,445
Jul
12
33,825
Aug
12
32,308
Sep
11
27,302
Oct
3
34,493
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, 2021.
Regulation
3:04
147 games
All games
3:08
Extra innings
3:50
14 of them
Longest
4:47
2021-05-08, 12 inn
Shortest
1:58
2021-06-20
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
3:08
3:09
1:58
4:47
Regulation
147
3:04
3:05
1:58
4:10
Extra innings
14
3:50
3:46
3:15
4:47
Home
80
3:10
3:12
1:58
4:47
Road
81
3:06
3:06
2:08
4:08
Day
46
3:04
3:01
2:08
4:08
Night
115
3:10
3:10
1:58
4:47
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
3:04
May
14
3:09
Jun
14
3:12
Jul
12
3:16
Aug
12
3:07
Sep
11
3:21
Oct
3
2:54
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 184 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 88-73, a .547 win rate, while their +134 run differential implies .584. That is about 6 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
