The Pittsburgh Pirates went 98-64 in 2015, a .605 winning percentage — the second best record in baseball. They scored 697 runs and allowed 596, a run differential of +101. The offence ranked 11th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.33 staff ERA was 4th of 30. Their 100 team wRC+ was 0% above league average — 13th of 30 in MLB. Andrew McCutchen led the position players at 6.6 WAR, and Gerrit Cole the rotation at a 2.60 ERA.
The 2015 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 2nd in the NL Central, 2 games back. They were as far as 9 games back on May 8. Their best month was August at 19-8, their worst May at 14-14. The longest runs were an 8-game winning streak from June 10 to June 18 and a 5-game losing streak from May 1 to May 6. They were 53-28 at home and 45-36 on the road, 36-17 in one-run games and 42-32 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 11-0 against the White Sox on June 15; the heaviest defeat, 15-5 at the Reds on July 30.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
12
10
.545
89
71
+18
May
14
14
.500
119
103
+16
June
17
9
.654
95
82
+13
July
17
9
.654
120
117
+3
August
19
8
.704
123
92
+31
Sept/Oct
19
14
.576
151
131
+20
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
53-28
.654
Road
45-36
.556
One-run games
36-17
.679
Extra innings
12-9
.571
Within the division
34-42
.447
Against .500+ clubs
42-32
.568
Decided by 5+ runs
21-12
.636
Last 10
6-4
.600
National League Central standings, 2015
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 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
30,847
33,507
11,777
39,933
Night
59
29,388
31,755
11,777
39,404
Day
22
34,758
36,177
22,224
39,933
Weekend
39
35,362
36,082
25,664
39,404
Weekday
42
26,654
26,609
11,777
39,933
On the road
81
33,049
33,899
15,616
49,529
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
10
24,173
May
14
28,210
Jun
14
30,717
Jul
14
34,179
Aug
15
34,624
Sep
11
30,277
Oct
3
33,661
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
2:57
141 games
All games
3:06
Extra innings
4:10
21 of them
Longest
5:11
2015-08-18, 15 inn
Shortest
2:06
2015-07-04
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
3:06
2:58
2:06
5:30
Regulation
141
2:57
2:55
2:06
3:42
Extra innings
21
4:10
4:02
3:04
5:30
Home
81
3:07
2:57
2:06
5:11
Road
81
3:06
2:59
2:20
5:30
Day
47
2:59
2:56
2:06
5:01
Night
115
3:09
3:01
2:20
5:30
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
10
2:54
May
14
2:46
Jun
14
3:11
Jul
14
3:02
Aug
15
3:21
Sep
11
3:21
Oct
3
3:29
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 177 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 98-64, a .605 win rate, while their +101 run differential implies .571. That is about 5 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
