The Seattle Mariners went 61-101 in 2008, a .377 winning percentage — the second worst record in baseball. They scored 671 runs and allowed 811, a run differential of -140. The offence ranked 26th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.68 staff ERA was 24th of 30. Their 89 team wRC+ was 11% below league average — 27th of 30 in MLB. Raul Ibanez led the position players at 3.1 WAR, and Félix Hernández the rotation at a 3.45 ERA.
The 2008 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 4th in the AL West, 39 games back. They spent 3 of 184 days in first place, led by as many as 0.5 games on March 31 and were as far as 41 games back on September 25. Their best month was March/April at 13-15, their worst May at 8-20. The longest runs were a 4-game winning streak from August 29 to September 1 and a 12-game losing streak from September 11 to September 22. They were 35-46 at home and 26-55 on the road, 18-30 in one-run games and 31-52 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 11-0 at the Mets on June 24; the heaviest defeat, 15-3 at the White Sox on August 20.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
13
15
.464
127
119
+8
May
8
20
.286
99
164
-65
June
10
16
.385
105
109
-4
July
10
16
.385
104
115
-11
August
12
16
.429
130
171
-41
Sept/Oct
8
18
.308
106
133
-27
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
35-46
.432
Road
26-55
.321
One-run games
18-30
.375
Extra innings
5-7
.417
Within the division
22-35
.386
Against .500+ clubs
31-52
.373
Decided by 5+ runs
13-24
.351
Last 10
4-6
.400
American League West standings, 2008
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League West, 2008. 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
28,797
28,919
15,818
46,337
Night
57
27,353
26,302
15,818
44,475
Day
24
32,226
31,435
17,184
46,337
Weekend
39
33,060
32,290
24,442
44,475
Weekday
42
24,838
23,446
15,818
46,337
On the road
81
29,823
29,966
10,164
54,269
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
1
46,337
Apr
13
25,955
May
15
28,756
Jun
11
29,213
Jul
12
32,726
Aug
17
28,144
Sep
12
27,077
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, 2008.
Regulation
2:43
150 games
All games
2:47
Extra innings
3:42
12 of them
Longest
4:26
2008-08-09, 11 inn
Shortest
2:09
2008-08-07
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
2:47
2:45
1:49
4:26
Regulation
150
2:43
2:42
1:49
3:29
Extra innings
12
3:42
3:33
3:14
4:26
Home
81
2:49
2:44
2:09
4:26
Road
81
2:46
2:45
1:49
4:09
Day
53
2:50
2:45
2:11
4:12
Night
109
2:46
2:44
1:49
4:26
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
1
3:12
Apr
13
2:52
May
15
2:40
Jun
11
2:45
Jul
12
3:00
Aug
17
2:49
Sep
12
2:44
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
Seattle Mariners are 61-101, a .377 win rate, while their -140 run differential implies .414. That is about 6 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
