The Seattle Mariners went 85-77 in 2009, a .525 winning percentage — 14th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 640 runs and allowed 692, a run differential of -52. The offence ranked 28th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.95 staff ERA was 6th of 30. Their 92 team wRC+ was 8% below league average — 26th of 30 in MLB. Ichiro Suzuki led the position players at 4.2 WAR, and Félix Hernández the rotation at a 2.49 ERA.
The 2009 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the AL West, 12 games back. They spent 26 of 184 days in first place, led by as many as 3.5 games on April 23 and were as far as 13.5 games back on September 11. Their best month was June at 15-10, their worst May at 11-18. The longest runs were a 6-game winning streak from April 9 to April 15 and a 6-game losing streak from May 4 to May 9. They were 48-33 at home and 37-44 on the road, 35-20 in one-run games and 43-47 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 11-2 against the Rays on August 9; the heaviest defeat, 11-0 at the Twins on May 8.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
13
9
.591
93
84
+9
May
11
18
.379
104
146
-42
June
15
10
.600
99
84
+15
July
14
13
.519
100
132
-32
August
15
14
.517
129
135
-6
Sept/Oct
17
13
.567
115
111
+4
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
48-33
.593
Road
37-44
.457
One-run games
35-20
.636
Extra innings
9-7
.563
Within the division
31-26
.544
Against .500+ clubs
43-47
.478
Decided by 5+ runs
18-24
.429
Last 10
6-4
.600
American League West standings, 2009
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League West, 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
27,117
27,045
16,034
45,958
Night
58
25,489
24,244
16,034
44,401
Day
23
31,221
30,469
16,373
45,958
Weekend
39
33,466
32,274
24,408
45,214
Weekday
42
21,221
18,830
16,034
45,958
On the road
79
27,974
28,503
10,297
50,847
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
26,113
May
15
27,917
Jun
12
27,208
Jul
13
28,911
Aug
18
28,064
Sep
10
23,400
Oct
4
25,297
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, 2009.
Regulation
2:42
146 games
All games
2:46
Extra innings
3:28
16 of them
Longest
5:02
2009-05-03, 15 inn
Shortest
2:06
2009-08-30
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
2:46
2:44
1:52
5:02
Regulation
146
2:42
2:41
1:52
3:37
Extra innings
16
3:28
3:13
2:53
5:02
Home
81
2:49
2:44
2:06
5:02
Road
81
2:44
2:44
1:52
3:37
Day
47
2:50
2:49
2:06
5:02
Night
115
2:45
2:43
1:52
3:55
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
2:42
May
15
3:02
Jun
12
2:50
Jul
13
2:42
Aug
18
2:48
Sep
10
2:48
Oct
4
2:33
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 162 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 85-77, a .525 win rate, while their -52 run differential implies .464. That is about 10 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
