The Kansas City Royals went 86-76 in 2024, a .531 winning percentage — 13th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 735 runs and allowed 644, a run differential of +91. The offence ranked 13th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.83 staff ERA was 10th of 30. Their 96 team wRC+ was 4% below league average — 18th of 30 in MLB. Bobby Witt Jr. led the position players at 9.7 WAR, and Cole Ragans the rotation at a 3.14 ERA.
The 2024 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished tied for 2nd in the AL Central, 6.5 games back. They spent 2 of 187 days in first place, led by as many as 0.5 games on April 13 and were as far as 10 games back on June 25. Their best month was May at 17-11, their worst Sept/Oct at 11-14. The longest runs were an 8-game winning streak from May 17 to May 25 and a 7-game losing streak from August 28 to September 3. They were 45-36 at home and 41-40 on the road, 17-21 in one-run games and 45-54 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 13-1 at the Reds on August 17; the heaviest defeat, 15-4 against the Rangers on May 4.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
18
13
.581
142
97
+45
May
17
11
.607
148
116
+32
June
12
15
.444
102
124
-22
July
13
10
.565
120
93
+27
August
15
13
.536
149
133
+16
Sept/Oct
11
14
.440
74
81
-7
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
45-36
.556
Road
41-40
.506
One-run games
17-21
.447
Extra innings
3-5
.375
Within the division
33-19
.635
Against .500+ clubs
45-54
.455
Decided by 5+ runs
34-18
.654
Last 10
4-6
.400
American League Central standings, 2024
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League Central, 2024. 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
20,473
20,691
9,740
38,775
Night
55
20,214
20,087
10,004
36,799
Day
26
21,022
21,376
9,740
38,775
Weekend
40
23,516
24,171
10,592
36,799
Weekday
41
17,505
16,275
9,740
38,775
On the road
80
25,830
25,068
4,557
52,789
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
3
23,747
Apr
14
13,110
May
13
19,851
Jun
16
21,748
Jul
12
24,344
Aug
11
22,180
Sep
12
21,785
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, 2024.
Regulation
2:31
153 games
All games
2:32
Extra innings
2:59
8 of them
Longest
3:25
2024-07-04, 9 inn
Shortest
2:04
2024-08-21
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
2:32
2:32
1:59
3:25
Regulation
153
2:31
2:31
1:59
3:25
Extra innings
8
2:59
3:00
2:32
3:17
Home
80
2:34
2:36
2:04
3:25
Road
81
2:31
2:30
1:59
3:17
Day
59
2:31
2:30
2:05
3:17
Night
102
2:33
2:33
1:59
3:25
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
3
2:32
Apr
13
2:36
May
13
2:33
Jun
16
2:33
Jul
12
2:35
Aug
11
2:40
Sep
12
2:28
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 151 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 86-76, a .531 win rate, while their +91 run differential implies .560. That is about 5 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
