The Boston Red Sox went 90-72 in 2011, a .556 winning percentage — 8th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 875 runs and allowed 737, a run differential of +138. The offence ranked the best in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.21 staff ERA was 21st of 30. Their 121 team wRC+ was 21% above league average — the best in MLB. Jacoby Ellsbury led the position players at 7.9 WAR, and Josh Beckett the rotation at a 2.89 ERA.
The 2011 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the AL East, 7 games back. They spent 68 of 181 days in first place, led by as many as 3 games on July 23 and were as far as 8 games back on September 24. Their best month was July at 20-6, their worst Sept/Oct at 7-20. The longest runs were a 9-game winning streak from June 3 to June 12 and a 6-game losing streak from April 1 to April 7. They were 45-36 at home and 45-36 on the road, 19-19 in one-run games and 46-38 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 14-0 at the Blue Jays on September 6; the heaviest defeat, 16-5 against the Rays on April 11.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
11
15
.423
107
113
-6
May
19
10
.655
156
125
+31
June
16
9
.640
152
95
+57
July
20
6
.769
171
110
+61
August
17
12
.586
143
122
+21
Sept/Oct
7
20
.259
146
172
-26
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
45-36
.556
Road
45-36
.556
One-run games
19-19
.500
Extra innings
6-5
.545
Within the division
38-34
.528
Against .500+ clubs
46-38
.548
Decided by 5+ runs
32-17
.653
Last 10
3-7
.300
American League East standings, 2011
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League East, 2011. 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
37,704
37,747
37,013
38,525
Night
52
37,778
37,839
37,015
38,477
Day
29
37,571
37,613
37,013
38,525
Weekend
39
37,710
37,796
37,039
38,239
Weekday
42
37,698
37,746
37,013
38,525
On the road
81
32,019
30,724
9,025
50,146
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
37,577
May
17
37,323
Jun
10
37,818
Jul
14
37,855
Aug
15
37,949
Sep
14
37,769
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 160 completed games, 2011.
Regulation
3:08
149 games
All games
3:13
Extra innings
4:29
11 of them
Longest
5:17
2011-06-04, 14 inn
Shortest
2:24
2011-08-16
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
160
3:13
3:08
2:10
5:44
Regulation
149
3:08
3:06
2:10
4:21
Extra innings
11
4:29
4:15
3:50
5:44
Home
80
3:17
3:08
2:24
5:17
Road
80
3:09
3:08
2:10
5:44
Day
49
3:09
3:05
2:14
5:17
Night
111
3:15
3:10
2:10
5:44
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
3:11
May
17
3:16
Jun
9
3:23
Jul
14
3:13
Aug
15
3:17
Sep
14
3:25
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 188 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
Boston Red Sox are 90-72, a .556 win rate, while their +138 run differential implies .578. That is about 4 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
