The Pittsburgh Pirates went 67-95 in 2006, a .414 winning percentage — 27th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 691 runs and allowed 797, a run differential of -106. The offence ranked the second worst in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.55 staff ERA was 16th of 30. Their 85 team wRC+ was 15% below league average — the worst in MLB. Jason Bay led the position players at 4.7 WAR, and Zach Duke the rotation at a 4.47 ERA.
The 2006 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 5th in the NL Central, 16.5 games back. They were as far as 22.5 games back on July 23. Their best month was July at 13-12, their worst March/April at 7-19. The longest runs were a 5-game winning streak from July 25 to July 30 and a 13-game losing streak from June 15 to June 28. They were 43-38 at home and 24-57 on the road, 24-31 in one-run games and 23-48 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 14-3 against the Brewers on May 29; the heaviest defeat, 14-1 at the Astros on August 9.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
7
19
.269
101
141
-40
May
12
15
.444
150
123
+27
June
8
20
.286
113
163
-50
July
13
12
.520
119
122
-3
August
13
15
.464
113
141
-28
Sept/Oct
14
14
.500
95
107
-12
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
43-38
.531
Road
24-57
.296
One-run games
24-31
.436
Extra innings
5-7
.417
Within the division
34-44
.436
Against .500+ clubs
23-48
.324
Decided by 5+ runs
15-24
.385
Last 10
2-8
.200
National League Central standings, 2006
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2006. 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
23,269
21,222
11,627
39,129
Night
53
24,600
24,410
12,666
38,373
Day
27
20,657
18,908
11,627
39,129
Weekend
39
28,916
29,247
15,020
38,373
Weekday
41
17,898
16,961
11,627
39,129
On the road
81
31,851
32,557
9,139
55,823
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
22,395
May
14
20,200
Jun
15
23,879
Jul
11
27,753
Aug
16
23,016
Sep
11
20,989
Oct
1
25,004
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 161 completed games, 2006.
Regulation
2:43
149 games
All games
2:48
Extra innings
3:53
12 of them
Longest
5:49
2006-05-27, 18 inn
Shortest
2:04
2006-09-30
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
161
2:48
2:46
1:54
5:49
Regulation
149
2:43
2:43
1:54
3:31
Extra innings
12
3:53
3:42
2:58
5:49
Home
80
2:51
2:46
2:04
5:49
Road
81
2:45
2:43
1:54
3:51
Day
55
2:51
2:52
2:08
4:14
Night
106
2:46
2:43
1:54
5:49
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
2:40
May
14
3:05
Jun
14
2:45
Jul
11
3:01
Aug
16
2:54
Sep
11
2:44
Oct
1
2:10
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 163 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
Pittsburgh Pirates are 67-95, a .414 win rate, while their -106 run differential implies .435. That is about 3 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
