The Chicago Cubs went 83-79 in 2024, a .512 winning percentage — 16th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 736 runs and allowed 669, a run differential of +67. The offence ranked 12th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.91 staff ERA was 12th of 30. Their 108 team wRC+ was 8% above league average — 7th of 30 in MLB. Seiya Suzuki led the position players at 4.0 WAR, and Justin Steele the rotation at a 3.07 ERA.
The 2024 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished tied for 2nd in the NL Central, 10 games back. They spent 1 of 187 days in first place, led by as many as 0.5 games on April 29 and were as far as 13 games back on July 3. Their best month was August at 18-8, their worst May at 10-18. The longest runs were a 6-game winning streak from August 26 to September 1 and a 5-game losing streak from May 22 to May 27. They were 44-37 at home and 39-42 on the road, 23-28 in one-run games and 43-47 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 14-1 at the Nationals on September 1; the heaviest defeat, 17-0 at the Red Sox on April 27.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
18
12
.600
149
135
+14
May
10
18
.357
99
124
-25
June
11
16
.407
99
118
-19
July
13
12
.520
110
87
+23
August
18
8
.692
155
109
+46
Sept/Oct
13
13
.500
124
96
+28
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
44-37
.543
Road
39-42
.481
One-run games
23-28
.451
Extra innings
7-5
.583
Within the division
23-29
.442
Against .500+ clubs
43-47
.478
Decided by 5+ runs
27-16
.628
Last 10
6-4
.600
National League Central standings, 2024
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2024. 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
35,923
36,420
25,900
41,040
Night
33
34,734
35,741
25,900
40,073
Day
48
36,741
37,676
27,806
41,040
Weekend
43
37,172
38,180
29,590
41,040
Weekday
38
34,511
35,603
25,900
40,143
On the road
81
31,646
32,078
11,936
51,923
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
33,396
May
14
36,662
Jun
13
38,322
Jul
12
37,812
Aug
13
36,033
Sep
16
33,877
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, 2024.
Regulation
2:36
150 games
All games
2:38
Extra innings
3:06
12 of them
Longest
3:14
2024-05-21, 10 inn
Shortest
1:48
2024-09-27
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
2:38
2:35
1:48
3:38
Regulation
150
2:36
2:34
1:48
3:37
Extra innings
12
3:06
3:12
2:30
3:38
Home
81
2:35
2:33
1:48
3:14
Road
81
2:41
2:38
2:05
3:38
Day
72
2:37
2:34
1:48
3:37
Night
90
2:39
2:37
2:05
3:38
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
2:39
May
14
2:38
Jun
13
2:42
Jul
12
2:32
Aug
13
2:31
Sep
16
2:29
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 156 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
Chicago Cubs are 83-79, a .512 win rate, while their +67 run differential implies .544. That is about 5 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
