The Kansas City Royals went 59-103 in 2019, a .364 winning percentage — 27th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 691 runs and allowed 869, a run differential of -178. The offence ranked 26th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 5.16 staff ERA was 27th of 30. Their 85 team wRC+ was 15% below league average — 28th of 30 in MLB. Jorge Soler led the position players at 3.8 WAR, and Homer Bailey the rotation at a 4.57 ERA.
The 2019 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 4th in the AL Central, 42 games back. They spent 5 of 186 days in first place, led by as many as 1 game on March 30 and were as far as 43 games back on September 28. Their best month was Sept/Oct at 11-14, their worst August at 8-19. The longest runs were a 4-game winning streak from July 15 to July 18 and a 10-game losing streak from March 31 to April 11. They were 31-50 at home and 28-53 on the road, 15-25 in one-run games and 28-60 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 15-3 at the Tigers on May 4; the heaviest defeat, 16-1 against the Rangers on May 16.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
9
20
.310
132
156
-24
May
10
18
.357
121
143
-22
June
10
17
.370
107
126
-19
July
11
15
.423
111
144
-33
August
8
19
.296
111
165
-54
Sept/Oct
11
14
.440
109
135
-26
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
31-50
.383
Road
28-53
.346
One-run games
15-25
.375
Extra innings
4-9
.308
Within the division
31-45
.408
Against .500+ clubs
28-60
.318
Decided by 5+ runs
16-27
.372
Last 10
3-7
.300
American League Central standings, 2019
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League Central, 2019. 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
18,496
18,257
10,024
31,675
Night
50
18,701
18,382
10,024
31,181
Day
30
18,153
17,976
10,231
31,675
Weekend
38
20,576
20,689
11,950
31,181
Weekday
42
16,613
15,416
10,024
31,675
On the road
81
25,011
23,564
8,298
43,444
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
3
19,292
Apr
13
13,916
May
12
17,972
Jun
13
21,749
Jul
17
19,207
Aug
11
18,880
Sep
12
17,357
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, 2019.
Regulation
3:00
148 games
All games
3:03
Extra innings
3:38
13 of them
Longest
4:51
2019-07-25, 14 inn
Shortest
2:23
2019-07-13
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
161
3:03
3:02
2:19
4:51
Regulation
148
3:00
3:01
2:19
4:05
Extra innings
13
3:38
3:29
2:56
4:51
Home
80
3:04
3:04
2:23
4:51
Road
81
3:02
3:00
2:19
4:40
Day
62
3:02
3:02
2:23
4:05
Night
99
3:03
3:03
2:19
4:51
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
3
3:08
Apr
13
3:14
May
12
2:59
Jun
13
2:59
Jul
17
3:07
Aug
11
2:58
Sep
11
3:05
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 180 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 59-103, a .364 win rate, while their -178 run differential implies .397. That is about 5 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
