The Cleveland Indians went 80-82 in 2011, a .494 winning percentage — 16th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 704 runs and allowed 760, a run differential of -56. The offence ranked 16th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.21 staff ERA was 22nd of 30. Their 98 team wRC+ was 2% below league average — 16th of 30 in MLB. Asdrúbal Cabrera led the position players at 4.6 WAR, and Justin Masterson the rotation at a 3.21 ERA.
The 2011 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 2nd in the AL Central, 15 games back. They spent 95 of 181 days in first place, led by as many as 7 games on May 21 and were as far as 15 games back on September 28. Their best month was March/April at 18-8, their worst June at 10-17. The longest runs were an 8-game winning streak from April 3 to April 11 and a 5-game losing streak from June 2 to June 6. They were 44-37 at home and 36-45 on the road, 30-26 in one-run games and 26-47 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 19-1 at the Royals on May 16; the heaviest defeat, 14-0 at the Tigers on September 26.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
18
8
.692
141
95
+46
May
14
12
.538
108
116
-8
June
10
17
.370
91
119
-28
July
11
15
.423
100
122
-22
August
15
13
.536
125
124
+1
Sept/Oct
12
17
.414
139
184
-45
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
44-37
.543
Road
36-45
.444
One-run games
30-26
.536
Extra innings
6-8
.429
Within the division
36-36
.500
Against .500+ clubs
26-47
.356
Decided by 5+ runs
14-25
.359
Last 10
4-6
.400
American League Central standings, 2011
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League Central, 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
22,726
21,487
8,726
41,721
Night
53
23,383
22,590
9,025
41,337
Day
28
21,484
20,861
8,726
41,721
Weekend
36
26,701
27,569
8,726
41,721
Weekday
45
19,547
18,201
9,025
40,676
On the road
81
30,671
31,132
9,279
47,048
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
14,283
May
11
24,037
Jun
13
22,252
Jul
15
26,145
Aug
15
25,530
Sep
13
24,005
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 161 completed games, 2011.
Regulation
2:52
147 games
All games
2:56
Extra innings
3:44
14 of them
Longest
5:02
2011-08-31, 16 inn
Shortest
2:13
2011-06-07
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
161
2:56
2:52
2:01
5:21
Regulation
147
2:52
2:49
2:01
3:45
Extra innings
14
3:44
3:27
2:49
5:21
Home
80
2:56
2:50
2:13
5:02
Road
81
2:57
2:55
2:01
5:21
Day
51
2:56
2:58
2:19
3:45
Night
110
2:57
2:51
2:01
5:21
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
2:50
May
11
2:55
Jun
13
2:52
Jul
15
2:58
Aug
15
3:06
Sep
12
2:51
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 80-82, a .494 win rate, while their -56 run differential implies .465. That is about 5 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
