The Oakland Athletics went 88-74 in 2014, a .543 winning percentage — 9th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 729 runs and allowed 572, a run differential of +157. The offence ranked 4th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.38 staff ERA was 6th of 30. Their 101 team wRC+ was 1% above league average — 11th of 30 in MLB. Josh Donaldson led the position players at 5.0 WAR, and Sonny Gray the rotation at a 3.08 ERA.
The 2014 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 2nd in the AL West, 10 games back. They spent 129 of 182 days in first place, led by as many as 6 games on June 19 and were as far as 12 games back on September 25. Their best month was June at 17-9, their worst Sept/Oct at 10-16. The longest runs were a 6-game winning streak from May 7 to May 13 and a 5-game losing streak from August 13 to August 17. They were 48-33 at home and 40-41 on the road, 21-28 in one-run games and 44-40 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 13-1 against the Astros on July 24; the heaviest defeat, 10-1 at the Mets on June 24.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
18
10
.643
148
89
+59
May
16
12
.571
142
89
+53
June
17
9
.654
132
110
+22
July
15
10
.600
113
85
+28
August
12
17
.414
103
114
-11
Sept/Oct
10
16
.385
91
85
+6
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
48-33
.593
Road
40-41
.494
One-run games
21-28
.429
Extra innings
13-8
.619
Within the division
38-38
.500
Against .500+ clubs
44-40
.524
Decided by 5+ runs
30-13
.698
Last 10
5-5
.500
2014 postseason
In October the Oakland Athletics lost the Wild Card Series to the Royals 1-0.
Wild Card Series vs Royals0-1 L
Game 1, September 30 L 8-9 at Royals
American League West standings, 2014
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League West, 2014. 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
25,045
23,679
10,120
36,067
Night
47
24,435
23,384
10,120
36,067
Day
33
25,915
25,533
15,134
36,067
Weekend
38
29,200
30,207
16,382
36,067
Weekday
42
21,286
20,800
10,120
36,067
On the road
81
28,757
29,372
10,555
45,277
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
1
36,067
Apr
11
19,716
May
16
19,962
Jun
11
29,020
Jul
12
28,159
Aug
15
26,256
Sep
15
25,356
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, 2014.
Regulation
2:59
141 games
All games
3:05
Extra innings
3:47
21 of them
Longest
4:09
2014-07-22, 12 inn
Shortest
2:20
2014-09-03
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
3:05
3:02
2:06
4:47
Regulation
141
2:59
2:58
2:06
4:06
Extra innings
21
3:47
3:45
2:32
4:47
Home
81
3:03
3:02
2:20
4:09
Road
81
3:07
3:02
2:06
4:47
Day
58
3:01
2:58
2:18
4:47
Night
104
3:07
3:05
2:06
4:39
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
1
3:15
Apr
11
3:08
May
16
2:55
Jun
11
3:07
Jul
12
3:07
Aug
15
3:02
Sep
15
3:03
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 179 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 +157 run differential implies .609. That is about 11 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
