The Oakland Athletics went 81-81 in 2010, a .500 winning percentage — 15th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 663 runs and allowed 626, a run differential of +37. The offence ranked 23rd of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.54 staff ERA was the third best. Their 96 team wRC+ was 4% below league average — 20th of 30 in MLB. Daric Barton led the position players at 3.5 WAR, and Gio Gonzalez the rotation at a 3.23 ERA.
The 2010 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 2nd in the AL West, 9 games back. They spent 30 of 182 days in first place, led by as many as 2.5 games on April 17 and were as far as 11 games back on June 24. Their best month was July at 14-10, their worst June at 10-17. The longest runs were a 5-game winning streak from July 10 to July 18 and a 6-game losing streak from September 24 to September 29. They were 47-34 at home and 34-47 on the road, 23-20 in one-run games and 37-53 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 15-1 against the Angels on July 10; the heaviest defeat, 10-1 at the Rangers on May 12.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
12
12
.500
106
99
+7
May
16
12
.571
99
113
-14
June
10
17
.370
117
122
-5
July
14
10
.583
111
83
+28
August
13
15
.464
98
92
+6
Sept/Oct
16
15
.516
132
117
+15
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
47-34
.580
Road
34-47
.420
One-run games
23-20
.535
Extra innings
4-7
.364
Within the division
30-27
.526
Against .500+ clubs
37-53
.411
Decided by 5+ runs
25-18
.581
Last 10
4-6
.400
American League West standings, 2010
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League West, 2010. 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
17,511
16,202
8,874
35,067
Night
49
16,796
15,103
8,874
33,369
Day
32
18,605
17,047
11,581
35,067
Weekend
39
18,809
16,946
11,154
35,067
Weekday
42
16,306
14,209
8,874
31,518
On the road
81
29,720
32,510
10,514
47,411
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
17,641
May
13
19,140
Jun
13
15,864
Jul
12
21,459
Aug
13
15,637
Sep
16
15,973
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, 2010.
Regulation
2:41
151 games
All games
2:44
Extra innings
3:20
11 of them
Longest
3:38
2010-05-18, 10 inn
Shortest
2:07
2010-04-22
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
2:44
2:43
2:05
4:08
Regulation
151
2:41
2:42
2:05
3:29
Extra innings
11
3:20
3:20
2:47
4:08
Home
81
2:43
2:42
2:07
3:38
Road
81
2:45
2:44
2:05
4:08
Day
56
2:43
2:43
2:06
3:51
Night
106
2:44
2:43
2:05
4:08
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
2:41
May
13
2:36
Jun
13
2:42
Jul
12
2:49
Aug
13
2:39
Sep
16
2:48
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 81-81, a .500 win rate, while their +37 run differential implies .526. That is about 4 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
