The Kansas City Royals went 89-73 in 2014, a .549 winning percentage — 7th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 651 runs and allowed 624, a run differential of +27. The offence ranked 14th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.56 staff ERA was 12th of 30. Their 97 team wRC+ was 3% below league average — 18th of 30 in MLB. Alex Gordon led the position players at 3.2 WAR, and James Shields the rotation at a 3.21 ERA.
The 2014 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 2nd in the AL Central, 1 game back. They spent 34 of 182 days in first place, led by as many as 3 games on August 23 and were as far as 8 games back on July 21. Their best month was August at 19-10, their worst May at 12-17. The longest runs were a 10-game winning streak from June 7 to June 18 and a 5-game losing streak from May 1 to May 5. They were 42-39 at home and 47-34 on the road, 22-25 in one-run games and 44-45 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 12-2 at the Diamondbacks on August 5; the heaviest defeat, 16-4 against the Tigers on July 10.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
14
12
.538
105
96
+9
May
12
17
.414
108
136
-28
June
17
10
.630
128
92
+36
July
12
13
.480
85
100
-15
August
19
10
.655
129
110
+19
Sept/Oct
15
11
.577
96
90
+6
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
42-39
.519
Road
47-34
.580
One-run games
22-25
.468
Extra innings
5-7
.417
Within the division
39-37
.513
Against .500+ clubs
44-45
.494
Decided by 5+ runs
21-20
.512
Last 10
6-4
.600
2014 postseason
In October the Kansas City Royals beat the Athletics 1-0 in the Wild Card Series, beat the Angels 3-0 in the ALDS, beat the Orioles 4-0 in the ALCS, then lost the World Series to the Giants 4-3.
Wild Card Series vs Athletics1-0 W
Game 1, September 30 W 9-8 vs Athletics
ALDS vs Angels3-0 W
Game 1, October 2 W 3-2 at Angels
Game 2, October 3 W 4-1 at Angels
Game 3, October 5 W 8-3 vs Angels
ALCS vs Orioles4-0 W
Game 1, October 10 W 8-6 at Orioles
Game 2, October 11 W 6-4 at Orioles
Game 3, October 14 W 2-1 vs Orioles
Game 4, October 15 W 2-1 vs Orioles
World Series vs Giants3-4 L
Game 1, October 21 L 1-7 vs Giants
Game 2, October 22 W 7-2 vs Giants
Game 3, October 24 W 3-2 at Giants
Game 4, October 25 L 4-11 at Giants
Game 5, October 26 L 0-5 at Giants
Game 6, October 28 W 10-0 vs Giants
Game 7, October 29 L 2-3 vs Giants
American League Central standings, 2014
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League Central, 2014. 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
24,154
23,409
10,705
40,103
Night
58
24,040
23,741
10,705
39,009
Day
23
24,442
23,278
13,612
40,103
Weekend
39
28,164
27,359
17,710
40,103
Weekday
42
20,431
20,658
10,705
32,070
On the road
81
26,873
27,416
8,848
48,110
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
19,686
May
16
20,901
Jun
16
25,282
Jul
11
26,795
Aug
14
26,216
Sep
13
26,096
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, 2014.
Regulation
2:59
150 games
All games
3:02
Extra innings
3:48
12 of them
Longest
4:23
2014-07-24, 14 inn
Shortest
2:06
2014-08-13
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
3:02
2:06
4:53
Regulation
150
2:59
3:00
2:06
4:16
Extra innings
12
3:48
3:48
3:03
4:53
Home
81
3:03
3:00
2:06
4:23
Road
81
3:02
3:02
2:14
4:53
Day
51
3:01
3:00
2:14
4:53
Night
111
3:03
3:02
2:06
4:23
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
3:01
May
16
2:55
Jun
16
3:02
Jul
11
3:12
Aug
14
3:02
Sep
13
3:09
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 179 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
Kansas City Royals are 89-73, a .549 win rate, while their +27 run differential implies .519. That is about 5 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
