The Texas Rangers went 80-82 in 2006, a .494 winning percentage — 15th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 835 runs and allowed 784, a run differential of +51. The offence ranked 6th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.58 staff ERA was 17th of 30. Their 99 team wRC+ was 1% below league average — 15th of 30 in MLB. Gary Matthews Jr. led the position players at 4.4 WAR, and Kevin Millwood the rotation at a 4.52 ERA.
The 2006 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the AL West, 13 games back. They spent 58 of 182 days in first place, led by as many as 5 games on May 30 and were as far as 13.5 games back on September 27. Their best month was August at 17-12, their worst Sept/Oct at 11-16. The longest runs were a 6-game winning streak from April 29 to May 4 and a 6-game losing streak from July 23 to July 29. They were 39-42 at home and 41-40 on the road, 17-26 in one-run games and 46-55 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 15-1 at the Orioles on July 13; the heaviest defeat, 15-2 at the Twins on July 31.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
13
12
.520
136
123
+13
May
15
13
.536
135
139
-4
June
13
14
.481
141
132
+9
July
11
15
.423
118
132
-14
August
17
12
.586
170
136
+34
Sept/Oct
11
16
.407
135
122
+13
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
39-42
.481
Road
41-40
.506
One-run games
17-26
.395
Extra innings
2-5
.286
Within the division
29-28
.509
Against .500+ clubs
46-55
.455
Decided by 5+ runs
29-21
.580
Last 10
3-7
.300
American League West standings, 2006
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League West, 2006. 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
29,491
28,197
16,512
51,573
Night
66
29,711
28,922
18,048
48,654
Day
15
28,521
24,388
16,512
51,573
Weekend
39
32,991
31,117
19,658
48,654
Weekday
42
26,240
23,786
16,512
51,573
On the road
81
29,523
31,439
7,147
52,547
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
29,621
May
18
27,315
Jun
11
27,948
Jul
14
35,199
Aug
12
28,943
Sep
13
28,037
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, 2006.
Regulation
2:47
154 games
All games
2:49
Extra innings
3:34
7 of them
Longest
3:47
2006-09-19, 10 inn
Shortest
2:00
2006-05-29
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
2:49
2:47
2:00
4:16
Regulation
154
2:47
2:46
2:00
3:49
Extra innings
7
3:34
3:20
3:09
4:16
Home
81
2:51
2:51
2:00
3:47
Road
80
2:48
2:44
2:05
4:16
Day
39
2:48
2:47
2:05
3:29
Night
122
2:50
2:48
2:00
4:16
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
2:46
May
18
2:53
Jun
11
2:41
Jul
14
2:55
Aug
12
2:49
Sep
13
2:56
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
Texas Rangers are 80-82, a .494 win rate, while their +51 run differential implies .529. That is about 6 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
