The San Diego Padres went 79-83 in 2021, a .488 winning percentage — 17th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 729 runs and allowed 708, a run differential of +21. The offence ranked 14th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.99 staff ERA was 12th of 30. Their 102 team wRC+ was 2% above league average — 13th of 30 in MLB. Fernando Tatis Jr. led the position players at 6.9 WAR, and Joe Musgrove the rotation at a 3.18 ERA.
The 2021 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the NL West, 28 games back. They spent 14 of 186 days in first place, led by as many as 1.5 games on May 26 and were as far as 28 games back on October 1. Their best month was May at 19-9, their worst Sept/Oct at 7-21. The longest runs were a 9-game winning streak from May 14 to May 23 and a 7-game losing streak from September 24 to October 1. They were 45-36 at home and 34-47 on the road, 21-26 in one-run games and 39-44 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 24-8 at the Nationals on July 16; the heaviest defeat, 15-5 against the Nationals on July 7.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
15
12
.556
109
94
+15
May
19
9
.679
155
89
+66
June
15
12
.556
113
114
-1
July
12
14
.462
136
129
+7
August
11
15
.423
106
119
-13
Sept/Oct
7
21
.250
110
163
-53
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
45-36
.556
Road
34-47
.420
One-run games
21-26
.447
Extra innings
8-8
.500
Within the division
34-42
.447
Against .500+ clubs
39-44
.470
Decided by 5+ runs
24-23
.511
Last 10
2-8
.200
National League West standings, 2021
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League West, 2021. 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
27,061
30,989
10,350
44,144
Night
57
27,537
31,884
10,350
44,144
Day
24
25,930
30,371
10,350
41,294
Weekend
42
27,713
33,361
10,350
44,144
Weekday
39
26,359
29,434
10,350
43,691
On the road
79
22,140
21,212
4,023
52,550
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
12,800
May
14
15,250
Jun
17
29,425
Jul
12
35,392
Aug
13
36,826
Sep
11
35,962
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, 2021.
Regulation
3:15
145 games
All games
3:19
Extra innings
4:03
16 of them
Longest
5:49
2021-08-25, 16 inn
Shortest
2:28
2021-09-24
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
3:19
3:15
2:28
5:49
Regulation
145
3:15
3:13
2:28
4:15
Extra innings
16
4:03
3:47
2:55
5:49
Home
81
3:22
3:20
2:28
5:49
Road
80
3:17
3:10
2:31
5:08
Day
54
3:20
3:16
2:36
5:08
Night
107
3:19
3:13
2:28
5:49
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
3:23
May
14
3:14
Jun
17
3:21
Jul
12
3:18
Aug
13
3:26
Sep
11
3:30
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 195 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
San Diego Padres are 79-83, a .488 win rate, while their +21 run differential implies .513. That is about 4 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
