The Tampa Bay Rays went 96-66 in 2019, a .593 winning percentage — 7th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 769 runs and allowed 656, a run differential of +113. The offence ranked 15th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.77 staff ERA was the third best. Their 103 team wRC+ was 3% above league average — 12th of 30 in MLB. Austin Meadows led the position players at 4.3 WAR, and Charlie Morton the rotation at a 3.05 ERA.
The 2019 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 2nd in the AL East, 7 games back. They spent 54 of 186 days in first place, led by as many as 5.5 games on April 12 and were as far as 11.5 games back on August 28. Their best month was Sept/Oct at 17-8, their worst June at 13-16. The longest runs were a 6-game winning streak from May 25 to May 30 and a 5-game losing streak from July 16 to July 20. They were 48-33 at home and 48-33 on the road, 23-16 in one-run games and 38-35 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 16-4 at the Orioles on July 12; the heaviest defeat, 15-1 at the Astros on August 27.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
19
9
.679
135
88
+47
May
16
11
.593
123
86
+37
June
13
16
.448
125
126
-1
July
14
12
.538
130
128
+2
August
17
10
.630
129
130
-1
Sept/Oct
17
8
.680
127
98
+29
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
48-33
.593
Road
48-33
.593
One-run games
23-16
.590
Extra innings
11-8
.579
Within the division
44-32
.579
Against .500+ clubs
38-35
.521
Decided by 5+ runs
26-16
.619
Last 10
7-3
.700
American League East standings, 2019
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League East, 2019. 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
80
14,734
14,718
5,786
25,025
Night
52
14,116
13,836
5,786
25,025
Day
28
15,882
15,435
6,844
25,025
Weekend
38
17,211
16,645
10,853
25,025
Weekday
42
12,493
10,713
5,786
25,025
On the road
79
26,068
24,810
5,947
48,663
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
4
18,142
Apr
12
12,631
May
13
13,440
Jun
12
16,311
Jul
13
19,072
Aug
13
12,402
Sep
14
12,499
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, 2019.
Regulation
3:04
143 games
All games
3:11
Extra innings
4:02
19 of them
Longest
4:39
2019-05-08, 13 inn
Shortest
2:12
2019-03-31
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
3:11
3:06
2:12
5:42
Regulation
143
3:04
3:03
2:12
4:10
Extra innings
19
4:02
3:58
3:16
5:42
Home
81
3:09
3:06
2:12
4:39
Road
81
3:13
3:07
2:19
5:42
Day
66
3:11
3:06
2:12
5:42
Night
96
3:11
3:07
2:19
4:40
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Mar
4
2:32
Apr
12
3:09
May
13
3:12
Jun
12
3:03
Jul
13
3:21
Aug
13
3:09
Sep
14
3:14
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 184 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 96-66, a .593 win rate, while their +113 run differential implies .572. That is about 3 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
