The Texas Rangers went 88-74 in 2015, a .543 winning percentage — 8th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 751 runs and allowed 733, a run differential of +18. The offence ranked the third best in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.29 staff ERA was 24th of 30. Their 101 team wRC+ was 1% above league average — 11th of 30 in MLB. Shin-Soo Choo led the position players at 4.4 WAR, and Yovani Gallardo the rotation at a 3.42 ERA.
The 2015 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished first in the AL West, 2 games clear. They spent 21 of 182 days in first place, led by as many as 4.5 games on September 25 and were as far as 9.5 games back on May 3. Their best month was August at 18-10, their worst March/April at 7-14. The longest runs were a 7-game winning streak from May 20 to May 26 and a 6-game losing streak from June 20 to June 26. They were 43-38 at home and 45-36 on the road, 27-22 in one-run games and 48-36 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 15-2 against the White Sox on June 2; the heaviest defeat, 21-5 against the Yankees on July 28.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
7
14
.333
75
96
-21
May
19
11
.633
158
138
+20
June
14
13
.519
109
102
+7
July
10
14
.417
106
153
-47
August
18
10
.643
127
112
+15
Sept/Oct
20
12
.625
176
132
+44
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
43-38
.531
Road
45-36
.556
One-run games
27-22
.551
Extra innings
5-4
.556
Within the division
36-40
.474
Against .500+ clubs
48-36
.571
Decided by 5+ runs
22-25
.468
Last 10
5-5
.500
American League West standings, 2015
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League West, 2015. 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
30,764
30,674
17,884
48,885
Night
61
30,633
30,487
18,401
47,877
Day
20
31,163
32,309
17,884
48,885
Weekend
39
34,122
32,512
22,234
48,885
Weekday
42
27,646
27,810
17,884
35,889
On the road
81
29,073
31,915
8,701
46,977
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
28,495
May
14
31,682
Jun
11
32,334
Jul
13
33,440
Aug
17
26,395
Sep
13
30,012
Oct
4
40,650
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, 2015.
Regulation
3:01
153 games
All games
3:04
Extra innings
3:54
9 of them
Longest
4:24
2015-04-12, 14 inn
Shortest
2:15
2015-05-13
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
3:04
3:03
2:15
4:24
Regulation
153
3:01
3:00
2:15
4:06
Extra innings
9
3:54
3:49
3:33
4:24
Home
81
3:06
3:05
2:15
4:24
Road
81
3:02
2:59
2:18
4:13
Day
47
3:07
3:01
2:19
4:24
Night
115
3:03
3:03
2:15
3:55
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
3:10
May
14
3:08
Jun
11
2:54
Jul
13
3:11
Aug
17
3:00
Sep
13
3:13
Oct
4
3:16
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 181 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 88-74, a .543 win rate, while their +18 run differential implies .511. That is about 5 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
