The Cleveland Indians went 78-84 in 2006, a .481 winning percentage — 19th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 870 runs and allowed 782, a run differential of +88. The offence ranked the second best in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.39 staff ERA was 11th of 30. Their 109 team wRC+ was 9% above league average — the second best in MLB. Grady Sizemore led the position players at 6.3 WAR, and CC Sabathia the rotation at a 3.22 ERA.
The 2006 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 4th in the AL Central, 18 games back. They spent 10 of 183 days in first place, led by as many as 1 game on April 11 and were as far as 28 games back on August 7. Their best month was August at 18-10, their worst June at 9-17. The longest runs were a 6-game winning streak from April 4 to April 11 and a 6-game losing streak from May 8 to May 14. They were 44-37 at home and 34-47 on the road, 18-26 in one-run games and 45-53 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 19-1 against the Yankees on July 4; the heaviest defeat, 14-2 against the Angels on June 4.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
13
12
.520
158
140
+18
May
13
14
.481
135
119
+16
June
9
17
.346
129
138
-9
July
10
16
.385
145
141
+4
August
18
10
.643
154
116
+38
Sept/Oct
15
15
.500
149
128
+21
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
44-37
.543
Road
34-47
.420
One-run games
18-26
.409
Extra innings
5-3
.625
Within the division
35-40
.467
Against .500+ clubs
45-53
.459
Decided by 5+ runs
33-20
.623
Last 10
8-2
.800
American League Central standings, 2006
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League Central, 2006. 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
24,666
23,769
14,503
42,706
Night
61
24,087
23,293
14,503
42,706
Day
20
26,430
24,718
17,079
42,445
Weekend
40
26,898
26,605
17,079
42,445
Weekday
41
22,488
21,424
14,503
42,706
On the road
81
30,222
33,178
9,114
54,648
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
24,774
May
14
23,852
Jun
13
24,892
Jul
16
28,622
Aug
13
24,824
Sep
12
20,033
Oct
1
22,079
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, 2006.
Regulation
2:52
152 games
All games
2:54
Extra innings
3:33
8 of them
Longest
3:48
2006-07-24, 9 inn
Shortest
2:07
2006-05-19
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
2:54
2:51
2:06
4:00
Regulation
152
2:52
2:50
2:06
3:48
Extra innings
8
3:33
3:29
3:13
4:00
Home
79
2:53
2:49
2:07
3:48
Road
81
2:55
2:56
2:06
4:00
Day
46
2:51
2:47
2:08
4:00
Night
114
2:55
2:55
2:06
4:00
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
3:02
May
14
2:47
Jun
12
2:49
Jul
16
2:58
Aug
13
2:54
Sep
11
2:49
Oct
1
2:08
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 172 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
Cleveland Indians are 78-84, a .481 win rate, while their +88 run differential implies .549. That is about 11 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
