The Toronto Blue Jays went 80-82 in 2005, a .494 winning percentage — 17th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 775 runs and allowed 705, a run differential of +70. The offence ranked 8th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.06 staff ERA was 11th of 30. Their 97 team wRC+ was 3% below league average — 19th of 30 in MLB. Vernon Wells led the position players at 2.9 WAR, and Roy Halladay the rotation at a 2.41 ERA.
The 2005 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the AL East, 15 games back. They spent 13 of 182 days in first place, led by as many as 1.5 games on April 11 and were as far as 16 games back on September 29. Their best month was May at 15-12, their worst June at 12-15. The longest runs were a 4-game winning streak from April 9 to April 12 and a 5-game losing streak from April 20 to April 24. They were 43-38 at home and 37-44 on the road, 16-31 in one-run games and 39-46 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 15-2 at the Red Sox on July 1; the heaviest defeat, 17-6 at the Tigers on August 21.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
13
12
.520
122
118
+4
May
15
12
.556
133
105
+28
June
12
15
.444
106
108
-2
July
13
12
.520
152
113
+39
August
13
15
.464
119
136
-17
Sept/Oct
14
16
.467
143
125
+18
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
43-38
.531
Road
37-44
.457
One-run games
16-31
.340
Extra innings
4-6
.400
Within the division
38-36
.514
Against .500+ clubs
39-46
.459
Decided by 5+ runs
25-14
.641
Last 10
5-5
.500
American League East standings, 2005
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League East, 2005. 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
24,876
23,039
13,839
50,560
Night
52
23,070
21,339
13,839
50,560
Day
29
28,116
25,198
18,841
48,088
Weekend
39
27,357
24,518
15,108
50,560
Weekday
42
22,573
21,568
13,839
37,536
On the road
81
29,900
30,453
8,545
55,136
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
24,048
May
15
23,370
Jun
10
23,057
Jul
16
22,372
Aug
12
30,765
Sep
15
25,126
Oct
2
32,659
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, 2005.
Regulation
2:43
152 games
All games
2:47
Extra innings
3:44
10 of them
Longest
4:50
2005-07-28, 18 inn
Shortest
1:44
2005-05-10
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
2:47
2:41
1:44
4:50
Regulation
152
2:43
2:40
1:44
3:47
Extra innings
10
3:44
3:45
2:56
4:50
Home
81
2:45
2:40
1:44
4:50
Road
81
2:48
2:43
1:50
4:09
Day
57
2:44
2:42
1:50
3:47
Night
105
2:48
2:40
1:44
4:50
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
2:47
May
15
2:33
Jun
10
2:37
Jul
16
3:00
Aug
12
2:46
Sep
15
2:46
Oct
2
2:30
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 163 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
Toronto Blue Jays are 80-82, a .494 win rate, while their +70 run differential implies .543. That is about 8 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
