The Arizona Diamondbacks went 81-81 in 2012, a .500 winning percentage — 17th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 734 runs and allowed 688, a run differential of +46. The offence ranked 8th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.95 staff ERA was 15th of 30. Their 97 team wRC+ was 3% below league average — 14th of 30 in MLB. Aaron Hill led the position players at 5.5 WAR, and Wade Miley the rotation at a 3.33 ERA.
The 2012 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the NL West, 13 games back. They spent 5 of 181 days in first place, led by as many as 0.5 games on April 8 and were as far as 13 games back on September 27. Their best month was June at 16-10, their worst May at 11-17. The longest runs were a 5-game winning streak from June 5 to June 10 and a 6-game losing streak from June 30 to July 5. They were 41-40 at home and 40-41 on the road, 15-27 in one-run games and 38-45 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 10-0 against the Rockies on June 5; the heaviest defeat, 12-3 against the Marlins on August 20.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
12
11
.522
104
102
+2
May
11
17
.393
104
123
-19
June
16
10
.615
135
104
+31
July
14
13
.519
134
108
+26
August
13
16
.448
109
123
-14
Sept/Oct
15
14
.517
148
128
+20
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
41-40
.506
Road
40-41
.494
One-run games
15-27
.357
Extra innings
3-4
.429
Within the division
38-34
.528
Against .500+ clubs
38-45
.458
Decided by 5+ runs
28-21
.571
Last 10
4-6
.400
National League West standings, 2012
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League West, 2012. 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
26,884
25,787
17,239
49,130
Night
59
26,354
24,768
17,366
48,819
Day
22
28,307
28,426
17,239
49,130
Weekend
39
31,266
30,523
20,951
49,130
Weekday
42
22,815
22,166
17,239
48,819
On the road
81
32,292
32,448
14,923
54,621
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
26,086
May
12
30,379
Jun
12
27,697
Jul
17
27,071
Aug
13
23,741
Sep
11
27,438
Oct
3
23,644
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 162 completed games, 2012.
Regulation
2:55
155 games
All games
2:58
Extra innings
3:54
7 of them
Longest
4:14
2012-10-01, 13 inn
Shortest
2:17
2012-04-21
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
162
2:58
2:56
2:12
4:19
Regulation
155
2:55
2:54
2:12
4:00
Extra innings
7
3:54
3:51
3:28
4:19
Home
81
2:56
2:51
2:17
4:14
Road
81
2:59
2:58
2:12
4:19
Day
48
2:56
2:54
2:14
4:00
Night
114
2:58
2:57
2:12
4:19
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
2:45
May
12
3:04
Jun
12
3:02
Jul
17
2:57
Aug
13
2:50
Sep
11
2:52
Oct
3
3:27
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 175 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
Arizona Diamondbacks are 81-81, a .500 win rate, while their +46 run differential implies .530. That is about 5 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
