The Baltimore Orioles went 47-115 in 2018, a .290 winning percentage — the worst record in baseball. They scored 622 runs and allowed 892, a run differential of -270. The offence ranked 27th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 5.07 staff ERA was the worst. Their 89 team wRC+ was 11% below league average — 26th of 30 in MLB. Manny Machado led the position players at 6.5 WAR, and Kevin Gausman the rotation at a 3.92 ERA.
The 2018 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 5th in the AL East, 61 games back. They spent 2 of 187 days in first place and were as far as 61 games back on September 29. Their best month was July at 9-16, their worst June at 6-20. The longest runs were a 4-game winning streak from May 9 to May 12 and a 9-game losing streak from June 7 to June 16. They were 28-53 at home and 19-62 on the road, 12-29 in one-run games and 26-67 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 17-1 against the Rays on May 13; the heaviest defeat, 19-3 at the Red Sox on September 26.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
8
20
.286
98
152
-54
May
9
19
.321
111
145
-34
June
6
20
.231
88
129
-41
July
9
16
.360
113
128
-15
August
8
20
.286
121
185
-64
Sept/Oct
7
20
.259
91
153
-62
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
28-53
.346
Road
19-62
.235
One-run games
12-29
.293
Extra innings
4-9
.308
Within the division
23-53
.303
Against .500+ clubs
26-67
.280
Decided by 5+ runs
14-35
.286
Last 10
3-7
.300
American League East standings, 2018
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League East, 2018. 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
20,054
18,890
7,915
45,469
Night
55
17,698
17,763
7,915
38,328
Day
23
25,688
24,916
14,263
45,469
Weekend
39
23,611
23,948
14,223
38,838
Weekday
39
16,496
15,436
7,915
45,469
On the road
81
27,205
28,863
9,474
47,206
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
2
31,616
Apr
13
16,377
May
11
20,108
Jun
14
22,413
Jul
15
18,955
Aug
13
21,445
Sep
13
14,613
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, 2018.
Regulation
2:57
149 games
All games
3:01
Extra innings
3:50
13 of them
Longest
4:01
2018-08-10, 9 inn
Shortest
2:16
2018-09-17
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
3:01
2:58
2:16
5:21
Regulation
149
2:57
2:55
2:16
4:01
Extra innings
13
3:50
3:32
3:01
5:21
Home
81
2:59
2:57
2:16
4:01
Road
81
3:03
2:58
2:17
5:21
Day
56
2:59
2:59
2:17
4:48
Night
106
3:02
2:57
2:16
5:21
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
2
3:11
Apr
13
2:48
May
11
2:51
Jun
14
3:11
Jul
15
3:01
Aug
13
3:12
Sep
13
2:49
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 177 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
Baltimore Orioles are 47-115, a .290 win rate, while their -270 run differential implies .341. That is about 8 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
