The Oakland Athletics went 68-94 in 2015, a .420 winning percentage — 26th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 694 runs and allowed 729, a run differential of -35. The offence ranked 14th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.15 staff ERA was 21st of 30. Their 97 team wRC+ was 3% below league average — 20th of 30 in MLB. Ben Zobrist led the position players at 3.2 WAR, and Sonny Gray the rotation at a 2.73 ERA.
The 2015 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 5th in the AL West, 20 games back. They spent 9 of 182 days in first place, led by as many as 1 game on April 14 and were as far as 21 games back on October 1. Their best month was June at 15-12, their worst Sept/Oct at 10-20. The longest runs were a 5-game winning streak from June 20 to June 25 and a 7-game losing streak from August 11 to August 17. They were 34-47 at home and 34-47 on the road, 19-35 in one-run games and 45-62 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 16-2 against the Padres on June 17; the heaviest defeat, 18-2 at the Orioles on August 16.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
9
14
.391
110
99
+11
May
11
19
.367
112
122
-10
June
15
12
.556
134
90
+44
July
10
14
.417
76
88
-12
August
13
15
.464
117
132
-15
Sept/Oct
10
20
.333
145
198
-53
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
34-47
.420
Road
34-47
.420
One-run games
19-35
.352
Extra innings
7-10
.412
Within the division
33-43
.434
Against .500+ clubs
45-62
.421
Decided by 5+ runs
23-23
.500
Last 10
4-6
.400
American League West standings, 2015
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League West, 2015. 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
21,829
20,387
11,364
36,067
Night
47
21,117
19,364
11,364
36,067
Day
34
22,814
22,122
13,392
36,067
Weekend
39
25,605
25,091
16,382
36,067
Weekday
42
18,323
17,149
11,364
36,067
On the road
81
29,526
29,700
10,605
51,788
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
22,416
May
13
24,183
Jun
13
20,892
Jul
13
21,535
Aug
15
21,159
Sep
14
20,961
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, 2015.
Regulation
2:56
145 games
All games
3:01
Extra innings
3:46
17 of them
Longest
3:57
2015-05-11, 11 inn
Shortest
2:06
2015-04-28
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
3:01
2:57
2:06
5:09
Regulation
145
2:56
2:56
2:06
3:53
Extra innings
17
3:46
3:39
3:00
5:09
Home
81
2:59
2:55
2:06
3:57
Road
81
3:04
2:58
2:20
5:09
Day
61
3:00
2:58
2:20
4:03
Night
101
3:02
2:57
2:06
5:09
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
2:58
May
13
2:58
Jun
13
2:55
Jul
13
2:47
Aug
15
3:02
Sep
14
3:13
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 176 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 68-94, a .420 win rate, while their -35 run differential implies .478. That is about 9 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
