The Pittsburgh Pirates went 62-99 in 2009, a .385 winning percentage — the second worst record in baseball. They scored 636 runs and allowed 768, a run differential of -132. The offence ranked the worst in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.54 staff ERA was 24th of 30. Their 88 team wRC+ was 12% below league average — the second worst in MLB. Andrew McCutchen led the position players at 3.4 WAR, and Paul Maholm the rotation at a 4.44 ERA.
The 2009 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 6th in the NL Central, 28.5 games back. They spent 3 of 184 days in first place and were as far as 32 games back on September 24. Their best month was March/April at 11-10, their worst Sept/Oct at 9-22. The longest runs were a 5-game winning streak from May 16 to May 20 and a 9-game losing streak from August 28 to September 5. They were 40-41 at home and 22-58 on the road, 12-22 in one-run games and 30-46 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 10-0 against the Braves on April 18; the heaviest defeat, 17-2 at the Cubs on August 14.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
11
10
.524
101
75
+26
May
11
18
.379
113
141
-28
June
14
13
.519
123
114
+9
July
8
17
.320
83
116
-33
August
9
19
.321
109
154
-45
Sept/Oct
9
22
.290
107
168
-61
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
40-41
.494
Road
22-58
.275
One-run games
12-22
.353
Extra innings
2-9
.182
Within the division
24-52
.316
Against .500+ clubs
30-46
.395
Decided by 5+ runs
17-28
.378
Last 10
6-4
.600
National League Central standings, 2009
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2009. 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
19,480
17,862
8,482
38,593
Night
56
19,303
17,245
8,482
38,593
Day
25
19,875
20,379
10,655
38,411
Weekend
39
23,846
23,363
13,670
38,593
Weekday
42
15,425
14,497
8,482
38,411
On the road
80
30,532
30,759
9,087
53,193
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
17,059
May
14
16,772
Jun
14
21,609
Jul
9
21,208
Aug
18
20,055
Sep
17
19,714
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 160 completed games, 2009.
Regulation
2:46
149 games
All games
2:50
Extra innings
3:37
11 of them
Longest
4:18
2009-08-06, 12 inn
Shortest
2:11
2009-06-02
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
160
2:50
2:45
1:51
4:46
Regulation
149
2:46
2:44
1:51
3:36
Extra innings
11
3:37
3:42
2:32
4:46
Home
81
2:50
2:46
2:11
4:18
Road
79
2:49
2:45
1:51
4:46
Day
55
2:45
2:38
2:06
3:48
Night
105
2:52
2:47
1:51
4:46
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
2:46
May
14
2:48
Jun
14
2:39
Jul
9
2:51
Aug
18
2:55
Sep
17
2:58
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 166 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 62-99, a .385 win rate, while their -132 run differential implies .415. That is about 5 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
