The Chicago White Sox went 63-99 in 2013, a .389 winning percentage — 28th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 598 runs and allowed 723, a run differential of -125. The offence ranked the second worst in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.00 staff ERA was 20th of 30. Their 90 team wRC+ was 10% below league average — 25th of 30 in MLB. Alexei Ramirez led the position players at 2.7 WAR, and Chris Sale the rotation at a 3.07 ERA.
The 2013 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 5th in the AL Central, 30 games back. They spent 8 of 183 days in first place, led by as many as 0.5 games on April 8 and were as far as 31 games back on September 26. Their best month was August at 16-13, their worst Sept/Oct at 7-21. The longest runs were a 6-game winning streak from August 16 to August 22 and a 10-game losing streak from July 26 to August 4. They were 37-44 at home and 26-55 on the road, 24-36 in one-run games and 36-66 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 12-1 against the Twins on September 16; the heaviest defeat, 14-3 against the Indians on September 12.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
10
15
.400
89
106
-17
May
14
13
.519
94
109
-15
June
8
19
.296
115
135
-20
July
8
18
.308
92
117
-25
August
16
13
.552
117
110
+7
Sept/Oct
7
21
.250
91
146
-55
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
37-44
.457
Road
26-55
.321
One-run games
24-36
.400
Extra innings
8-15
.348
Within the division
26-50
.342
Against .500+ clubs
36-66
.353
Decided by 5+ runs
7-21
.250
Last 10
3-7
.300
American League Central standings, 2013
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League Central, 2013. 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
80
22,107
22,162
13,404
39,012
Night
52
21,684
21,900
13,404
31,891
Day
28
22,892
22,655
14,213
39,012
Weekend
39
23,641
23,735
15,312
31,891
Weekday
41
20,647
19,746
13,404
39,012
On the road
81
27,333
26,253
11,422
43,906
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
20,105
May
10
23,879
Jun
12
21,550
Jul
14
25,302
Aug
16
22,270
Sep
15
18,608
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, 2013.
Regulation
2:56
139 games
All games
3:02
Extra innings
3:37
23 of them
Longest
4:14
2013-08-13, 11 inn
Shortest
2:23
2013-07-02
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
3:02
2:59
2:07
5:42
Regulation
139
2:56
2:55
2:07
4:02
Extra innings
23
3:37
3:35
2:30
5:42
Home
81
3:01
2:56
2:23
4:14
Road
81
3:03
3:04
2:07
5:42
Day
56
3:07
3:05
2:23
5:42
Night
106
2:59
2:56
2:07
4:14
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
3:03
May
10
2:54
Jun
12
3:02
Jul
14
2:55
Aug
16
3:11
Sep
15
2:58
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 176 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 White Sox are 63-99, a .389 win rate, while their -125 run differential implies .414. That is about 4 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
