The Houston Astros went 103-59 in 2018, a .636 winning percentage — the second best record in baseball. They scored 797 runs and allowed 534, a run differential of +263. The offence ranked 6th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.16 staff ERA was the best. Their 109 team wRC+ was 9% above league average — 5th of 30 in MLB. Alex Bregman led the position players at 7.3 WAR, and Justin Verlander the rotation at a 2.52 ERA.
The 2018 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished first in the AL West, 6 games clear. They spent 156 of 187 days in first place, led by as many as 6 games on July 21 and were as far as 3.5 games back on April 16. Their best month was Sept/Oct at 21-6, their worst August at 14-12. The longest runs were a 12-game winning streak from June 6 to June 18 and a 5-game losing streak from July 25 to July 30. They were 46-35 at home and 57-24 on the road, 24-24 in one-run games and 41-38 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 16-2 at the Athletics on May 7; the heaviest defeat, 14-5 at the Angels on July 22.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
20
10
.667
149
82
+67
May
16
12
.571
138
80
+58
June
19
8
.704
144
98
+46
July
13
11
.542
107
98
+9
August
14
12
.538
128
93
+35
Sept/Oct
21
6
.778
131
83
+48
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
46-35
.568
Road
57-24
.704
One-run games
24-24
.500
Extra innings
5-6
.455
Within the division
46-30
.605
Against .500+ clubs
41-38
.519
Decided by 5+ runs
37-8
.822
Last 10
8-2
.800
American League West standings, 2018
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League West, 2018. 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
36,797
37,414
27,698
43,409
Night
59
36,353
35,959
28,301
43,409
Day
22
37,986
39,430
27,698
43,247
Weekend
42
38,745
39,430
30,770
43,247
Weekday
39
34,699
34,585
27,698
43,409
On the road
80
28,842
28,399
7,360
53,598
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
16
35,923
May
12
34,659
Jun
14
37,013
Jul
14
38,727
Aug
11
36,019
Sep
14
38,093
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, 2018.
Regulation
3:02
151 games
All games
3:04
Extra innings
3:39
11 of them
Longest
4:04
2018-09-22, 9 inn
Shortest
2:25
2018-04-08
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
3:04
3:02
2:19
4:53
Regulation
151
3:02
2:59
2:19
4:04
Extra innings
11
3:39
3:33
3:06
4:53
Home
81
3:04
3:04
2:25
4:04
Road
81
3:04
3:02
2:19
4:53
Day
51
3:02
3:02
2:23
4:53
Night
111
3:05
3:02
2:19
4:04
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
16
2:59
May
12
2:55
Jun
14
3:06
Jul
14
3:02
Aug
11
3:11
Sep
14
3:14
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 182 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 103-59, a .636 win rate, while their +263 run differential implies .675. That is about 6 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
