The Kansas City Royals went 58-104 in 2018, a .358 winning percentage — the second worst record in baseball. They scored 638 runs and allowed 833, a run differential of -195. The offence ranked 25th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.94 staff ERA was the second worst. Their 90 team wRC+ was 10% below league average — 25th of 30 in MLB. Whit Merrifield led the position players at 4.6 WAR, and Brad Keller the rotation at a 3.08 ERA.
The 2018 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 5th in the AL Central, 33 games back. They were as far as 35.5 games back on August 21. Their best month was Sept/Oct at 15-13, their worst June at 5-21. The longest runs were a 6-game winning streak from August 28 to September 3 and a 10-game losing streak from June 29 to July 9. They were 32-49 at home and 26-55 on the road, 19-30 in one-run games and 18-56 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 10-0 against the Mariners on April 9; the heaviest defeat, 16-0 against the Athletics on June 1.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
7
21
.250
95
160
-65
May
13
15
.464
135
149
-14
June
5
21
.192
58
136
-78
July
8
16
.333
100
137
-37
August
10
18
.357
119
132
-13
Sept/Oct
15
13
.536
131
119
+12
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
32-49
.395
Road
26-55
.321
One-run games
19-30
.388
Extra innings
5-8
.385
Within the division
36-40
.474
Against .500+ clubs
18-56
.243
Decided by 5+ runs
15-32
.319
Last 10
6-4
.600
American League Central standings, 2018
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League Central, 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
20,557
19,262
12,324
38,427
Night
58
20,237
18,481
12,324
38,427
Day
23
21,364
19,690
14,314
36,517
Weekend
40
21,764
20,472
15,011
38,427
Weekday
41
19,379
18,319
12,324
36,517
On the road
80
24,262
22,069
7,963
46,965
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
2
27,041
Apr
13
15,975
May
13
22,509
Jun
12
21,540
Jul
12
22,704
Aug
16
21,100
Sep
13
18,631
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
2:54
149 games
All games
2:57
Extra innings
3:27
13 of them
Longest
4:12
2018-05-29, 14 inn
Shortest
2:16
2018-05-06
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
2:57
2:55
2:00
4:25
Regulation
149
2:54
2:53
2:00
4:03
Extra innings
13
3:27
3:29
2:46
4:25
Home
81
2:58
2:56
2:16
4:12
Road
81
2:56
2:53
2:00
4:25
Day
57
2:51
2:49
2:00
3:37
Night
105
3:00
2:57
2:16
4:25
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
2
3:10
Apr
13
3:02
May
13
2:57
Jun
12
2:49
Jul
12
3:03
Aug
16
2:48
Sep
13
3:07
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 174 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 58-104, a .358 win rate, while their -195 run differential implies .380. That is about 4 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
