The San Francisco Giants went 86-76 in 2011, a .531 winning percentage — 12th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 570 runs and allowed 578, a run differential of -8. The offence ranked the second worst in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.21 staff ERA was the second best. Their 92 team wRC+ was 8% below league average — 25th of 30 in MLB. Pablo Sandoval led the position players at 4.2 WAR, and Madison Bumgarner the rotation at a 3.21 ERA.
The 2011 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 2nd in the NL West, 8 games back. They spent 79 of 182 days in first place, led by as many as 4.5 games on July 15 and were as far as 9.5 games back on September 10. Their best month was June at 17-11, their worst August at 11-18. The longest runs were an 8-game winning streak from September 11 to September 18 and a 5-game losing streak from June 16 to June 21. They were 46-35 at home and 40-41 on the road, 33-22 in one-run games and 32-34 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 15-3 at the Tigers on July 2; the heaviest defeat, 15-2 at the Diamondbacks on September 24.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
13
13
.500
97
98
-1
May
16
12
.571
90
95
-5
June
17
11
.607
100
93
+7
July
15
11
.577
95
93
+2
August
11
18
.379
78
104
-26
Sept/Oct
14
11
.560
110
95
+15
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
46-35
.568
Road
40-41
.494
One-run games
33-22
.600
Extra innings
13-8
.619
Within the division
43-29
.597
Against .500+ clubs
32-34
.485
Decided by 5+ runs
15-20
.429
Last 10
4-6
.400
National League West standings, 2011
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League West, 2011. 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
41,819
41,956
40,870
42,648
Night
53
41,747
41,902
40,870
42,648
Day
28
41,955
42,131
41,046
42,603
Weekend
39
41,922
42,092
40,948
42,404
Weekday
42
41,722
41,762
40,870
42,648
On the road
81
32,720
32,858
9,048
56,432
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
41,985
May
12
41,605
Jun
16
41,680
Jul
13
42,034
Aug
19
41,909
Sep
12
41,716
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, 2011.
Regulation
2:47
140 games
All games
2:54
Extra innings
3:42
21 of them
Longest
4:29
2011-06-06, 13 inn
Shortest
2:13
2011-06-05
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
2:54
2:51
2:02
4:29
Regulation
140
2:47
2:48
2:02
3:45
Extra innings
21
3:42
3:46
2:49
4:29
Home
81
2:50
2:45
2:13
4:29
Road
80
2:58
2:55
2:02
4:25
Day
56
2:53
2:48
2:13
4:24
Night
105
2:55
2:51
2:02
4:29
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
2:59
May
12
2:59
Jun
16
2:48
Jul
13
2:48
Aug
19
2:43
Sep
12
2:51
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 167 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 Francisco Giants are 86-76, a .531 win rate, while their -8 run differential implies .494. That is about 6 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
