The Oakland Athletics went 88-74 in 2005, a .543 winning percentage — 9th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 772 runs and allowed 658, a run differential of +114. The offence ranked 9th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.91 staff ERA was 9th of 30. Their 94 team wRC+ was 6% below league average — 22nd of 30 in MLB. Mark Ellis led the position players at 3.6 WAR, and Dan Haren the rotation at a 3.73 ERA.
The 2005 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 2nd in the AL West, 7 games back. They spent 23 of 182 days in first place, led by as many as 2 games on August 30 and were as far as 12.5 games back on May 29. Their best month was July at 20-6, their worst May at 7-20. The longest runs were an 8-game winning streak from June 23 to July 1 and an 8-game losing streak from May 7 to May 15. They were 45-36 at home and 43-38 on the road, 26-24 in one-run games and 37-41 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 16-0 against the Giants on June 26; the heaviest defeat, 11-2 at the Devil Rays on April 9.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
12
12
.500
89
101
-12
May
7
20
.259
112
162
-50
June
19
8
.704
148
84
+64
July
20
6
.769
155
103
+52
August
17
11
.607
141
79
+62
Sept/Oct
13
17
.433
127
129
-2
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
45-36
.556
Road
43-38
.531
One-run games
26-24
.520
Extra innings
10-4
.714
Within the division
32-24
.571
Against .500+ clubs
37-41
.474
Decided by 5+ runs
29-19
.604
Last 10
4-6
.400
American League West standings, 2005
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League West, 2005. 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
26,041
24,012
10,106
47,385
Night
49
24,552
20,715
10,106
46,812
Day
32
28,320
26,269
14,172
47,385
Weekend
39
30,128
27,709
12,332
47,385
Weekday
42
22,246
19,295
10,106
45,131
On the road
81
29,882
28,829
8,785
52,776
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
22,023
May
12
27,001
Jun
17
24,409
Jul
13
25,095
Aug
12
32,555
Sep
16
25,699
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, 2005.
Regulation
2:41
148 games
All games
2:45
Extra innings
3:27
14 of them
Longest
4:10
2005-07-17, 14 inn
Shortest
2:00
2005-08-12
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
2:45
2:42
2:00
4:10
Regulation
148
2:41
2:38
2:00
3:35
Extra innings
14
3:27
3:42
2:24
4:10
Home
81
2:43
2:38
2:00
4:10
Road
81
2:47
2:44
2:11
3:59
Day
55
2:45
2:41
2:04
4:10
Night
107
2:45
2:43
2:00
3:59
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
2:44
May
12
2:58
Jun
17
2:28
Jul
13
2:44
Aug
12
2:45
Sep
16
2:43
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 161 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
Oakland Athletics are 88-74, a .543 win rate, while their +114 run differential implies .573. That is about 5 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
