The Los Angeles Dodgers went 111-51 in 2022, a .685 winning percentage — the best record in baseball. They scored 847 runs and allowed 513, a run differential of +334. The offence ranked the best in MLB for runs scored, while their 2.94 staff ERA was the best. Their 117 team wRC+ was 17% above league average — the third best in MLB. Freddie Freeman led the position players at 6.7 WAR, and Clayton Kershaw the rotation at a 2.28 ERA.
The 2022 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished first in the NL West, 22 games clear. They spent 170 of 181 days in first place, led by as many as 23 games on September 30 and were as far as 2 games back on April 11. Their best month was July at 21-5, their worst June at 14-12. The longest runs were a 12-game winning streak from July 31 to August 13 and a 4-game losing streak from May 11 to May 14. They were 57-24 at home and 54-27 on the road, 16-15 in one-run games and 50-27 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 14-1 at the Diamondbacks on May 26; the heaviest defeat, 11-0 against the Cardinals on September 23.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
13
7
.650
96
52
+44
May
20
9
.690
174
102
+72
June
14
12
.538
109
94
+15
July
21
5
.808
147
83
+64
August
22
6
.786
165
74
+91
Sept/Oct
21
12
.636
156
108
+48
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
57-24
.704
Road
54-27
.667
One-run games
16-15
.516
Extra innings
6-9
.400
Within the division
54-22
.711
Against .500+ clubs
50-27
.649
Decided by 5+ runs
42-8
.840
Last 10
6-4
.600
National League West standings, 2022
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League West, 2022. 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
47,672
48,361
35,643
53,432
Night
58
48,804
50,222
37,091
53,432
Day
23
44,817
44,229
35,643
53,033
Weekend
39
48,726
49,394
41,167
53,033
Weekday
42
46,692
47,190
35,643
53,432
On the road
81
31,228
32,523
8,527
48,627
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
49,105
May
13
47,137
Jun
11
49,552
Jul
17
47,358
Aug
11
48,740
Sep
15
45,840
Oct
5
46,557
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, 2022.
Regulation
3:04
147 games
All games
3:08
Extra innings
3:47
15 of them
Longest
4:18
2022-05-13, 10 inn
Shortest
2:38
2022-05-14
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
3:08
3:05
2:17
4:23
Regulation
147
3:04
3:02
2:17
4:13
Extra innings
15
3:47
3:47
3:01
4:23
Home
81
3:06
3:02
2:38
4:18
Road
81
3:10
3:07
2:17
4:23
Day
46
3:11
3:10
2:34
4:13
Night
116
3:07
3:03
2:17
4:23
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
2:59
May
13
3:11
Jun
11
3:10
Jul
17
3:11
Aug
11
3:01
Sep
15
3:03
Oct
5
2:58
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 184 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
Los Angeles Dodgers are 111-51, a .685 win rate, while their +334 run differential implies .715. That is about 5 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
