The Tampa Bay Rays went 90-72 in 2012, a .556 winning percentage — 9th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 697 runs and allowed 577, a run differential of +120. The offence ranked 18th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.19 staff ERA was the best. Their 101 team wRC+ was 1% above league average — 9th of 30 in MLB. Ben Zobrist led the position players at 5.0 WAR, and David Price the rotation at a 2.56 ERA.
The 2012 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the AL East, 5 games back. They spent 42 of 181 days in first place, led by as many as 1.5 games on May 3 and were as far as 10.5 games back on July 18. Their best month was March/April at 15-8, their worst June at 12-15. The longest runs were an 8-game winning streak from September 19 to September 27 and a 4-game losing streak from April 12 to April 15. They were 46-35 at home and 44-37 on the road, 21-27 in one-run games and 45-42 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 11-0 against the Marlins on June 15; the heaviest defeat, 12-2 at the Red Sox on April 13.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
15
8
.652
106
98
+8
May
14
14
.500
110
108
+2
June
12
15
.444
109
118
-9
July
13
13
.500
103
85
+18
August
17
11
.607
121
69
+52
Sept/Oct
19
11
.633
148
99
+49
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
46-35
.568
Road
44-37
.543
One-run games
21-27
.438
Extra innings
5-7
.417
Within the division
41-31
.569
Against .500+ clubs
45-42
.517
Decided by 5+ runs
24-11
.686
Last 10
8-2
.800
American League East standings, 2012
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League East, 2012. 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
19,255
18,763
9,458
34,078
Night
54
17,471
17,279
9,458
34,078
Day
27
22,823
22,227
11,471
34,078
Weekend
38
22,888
21,301
14,143
34,078
Weekday
43
16,045
14,337
9,458
28,585
On the road
81
30,404
29,628
12,564
49,197
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
10
23,006
May
17
17,322
Jun
12
21,869
Jul
14
21,967
Aug
12
16,723
Sep
13
16,883
Oct
3
15,012
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, 2012.
Regulation
3:02
150 games
All games
3:06
Extra innings
4:00
12 of them
Longest
5:07
2012-06-16, 15 inn
Shortest
2:15
2012-09-09
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
3:06
3:03
2:15
5:14
Regulation
150
3:02
3:01
2:15
4:09
Extra innings
12
4:00
3:49
2:46
5:14
Home
81
3:06
3:01
2:15
5:07
Road
81
3:05
3:06
2:17
5:14
Day
54
3:06
3:01
2:15
5:14
Night
108
3:06
3:04
2:17
5:09
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
10
3:08
May
17
3:07
Jun
12
3:11
Jul
14
3:18
Aug
12
2:49
Sep
13
3:10
Oct
3
2:39
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 182 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
Tampa Bay Rays are 90-72, a .556 win rate, while their +120 run differential implies .586. That is about 5 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
