The Houston Astros went 51-111 in 2013, a .315 winning percentage — the worst record in baseball. They scored 610 runs and allowed 848, a run differential of -238. The offence ranked 27th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.74 staff ERA was the worst. Their 87 team wRC+ was 13% below league average — the second worst in MLB. Jason Castro led the position players at 3.9 WAR, and Bud Norris the rotation at a 4.18 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 West, 45 games back. They spent 2 of 184 days in first place, led by as many as 0.5 games on March 31 and were as far as 45 games back on September 29. Their best month was June at 12-15, their worst July at 6-18. The longest runs were a 6-game winning streak from May 29 to June 3 and a 15-game losing streak from September 14 to September 29. They were 24-57 at home and 27-54 on the road, 18-36 in one-run games and 18-76 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 11-0 at the Orioles on July 31; the heaviest defeat, 17-2 against the Tigers on May 4.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
8
19
.296
111
156
-45
May
10
18
.357
109
156
-47
June
12
15
.444
90
110
-20
July
6
18
.250
95
138
-43
August
8
21
.276
117
153
-36
Sept/Oct
7
20
.259
88
135
-47
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
24-57
.296
Road
27-54
.333
One-run games
18-36
.333
Extra innings
4-8
.333
Within the division
25-51
.329
Against .500+ clubs
18-76
.191
Decided by 5+ runs
13-34
.277
Last 10
0-10
.000
American League West standings, 2013
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League West, 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
81
20,394
19,745
11,688
41,307
Night
56
20,220
19,684
12,298
41,307
Day
25
20,783
19,780
11,688
40,539
Weekend
40
23,370
21,391
13,869
41,307
Weekday
41
17,490
15,814
11,688
32,248
On the road
81
27,575
29,743
9,808
44,313
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
1
41,307
Apr
11
18,207
May
18
16,985
Jun
15
18,738
Jul
10
22,962
Aug
13
22,544
Sep
13
23,141
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, 2013.
Regulation
3:07
149 games
All games
3:12
Extra innings
4:10
12 of them
Longest
5:18
2013-09-18, 13 inn
Shortest
2:24
2013-08-11
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
3:12
3:08
2:15
5:18
Regulation
149
3:07
3:06
2:15
4:07
Extra innings
12
4:10
4:06
3:32
5:18
Home
81
3:15
3:08
2:24
5:18
Road
80
3:09
3:08
2:15
4:28
Day
46
3:06
3:04
2:24
4:21
Night
115
3:14
3:10
2:15
5:18
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
1
3:00
Apr
11
3:11
May
18
3:21
Jun
15
3:09
Jul
10
3:24
Aug
13
3:10
Sep
13
3:19
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 187 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
Houston Astros are 51-111, a .315 win rate, while their -238 run differential implies .354. That is about 6 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
