The Pittsburgh Pirates went 76-86 in 2023, a .469 winning percentage — 21st of 30 record in baseball. They scored 692 runs and allowed 790, a run differential of -98. The offence ranked 22nd of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.72 staff ERA was 24th of 30. Their 92 team wRC+ was 8% below league average — 24th of 30 in MLB. Jack Suwinski led the position players at 3.1 WAR, and Mitch Keller the rotation at a 4.21 ERA.
The 2023 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 4th in the NL Central, 16 games back. They spent 33 of 186 days in first place, led by as many as 1.5 games on April 27 and were as far as 16 games back on September 29. Their best month was March/April at 20-9, their worst May at 8-18. The longest runs were a 7-game winning streak from April 17 to April 23 and a 10-game losing streak from June 13 to June 22. They were 39-42 at home and 37-44 on the road, 22-17 in one-run games and 40-62 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 16-1 at the Nationals on April 29; the heaviest defeat, 14-1 at the Brewers on August 3.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
20
9
.690
156
108
+48
May
8
18
.308
85
127
-42
June
11
15
.423
101
138
-37
July
8
16
.333
93
133
-40
August
14
15
.483
127
141
-14
Sept/Oct
15
13
.536
130
143
-13
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
39-42
.481
Road
37-44
.457
One-run games
22-17
.564
Extra innings
3-9
.250
Within the division
25-27
.481
Against .500+ clubs
40-62
.392
Decided by 5+ runs
15-27
.357
Last 10
5-5
.500
National League Central standings, 2023
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2023. 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
20,131
19,154
8,594
39,167
Night
50
19,514
16,908
9,222
38,434
Day
31
21,127
21,642
8,594
39,167
Weekend
39
26,469
25,903
10,571
39,167
Weekday
42
14,246
13,591
8,594
26,541
On the road
81
29,919
31,388
8,261
51,487
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
15,004
May
12
18,961
Jun
16
21,954
Jul
11
29,292
Aug
16
19,285
Sep
12
16,922
Oct
1
22,954
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, 2023.
Regulation
2:39
150 games
All games
2:40
Extra innings
2:56
12 of them
Longest
3:39
2023-08-13, 10 inn
Shortest
1:50
2023-09-14
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
2:40
2:40
1:50
3:39
Regulation
150
2:39
2:39
1:50
3:34
Extra innings
12
2:56
2:54
2:34
3:39
Home
81
2:40
2:40
1:50
3:39
Road
81
2:40
2:40
2:04
3:34
Day
61
2:36
2:34
1:50
3:08
Night
101
2:43
2:42
1:55
3:39
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
2:33
May
12
2:34
Jun
16
2:44
Jul
11
2:44
Aug
16
2:48
Sep
12
2:37
Oct
1
2:17
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 159 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 76-86, a .469 win rate, while their -98 run differential implies .440. That is about 5 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
