The Toronto Blue Jays went 86-76 in 2008, a .531 winning percentage — 13th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 714 runs and allowed 610, a run differential of +104. The offence ranked 21st of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.49 staff ERA was the best. Their 97 team wRC+ was 3% below league average — 17th of 30 in MLB. Alex Rios led the position players at 2.8 WAR, and Roy Halladay the rotation at a 2.78 ERA.
The 2008 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 4th in the AL East, 11 games back. They spent 1 of 183 days in first place and were as far as 14.5 games back on August 29. Their best month was May at 20-10, their worst June at 10-16. The longest runs were a 10-game winning streak from August 30 to September 9 and a 7-game losing streak from June 14 to June 21. They were 47-34 at home and 39-42 on the road, 24-32 in one-run games and 45-48 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 14-1 against the Reds on June 24; the heaviest defeat, 12-0 at the Indians on May 10.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
11
17
.393
116
112
+4
May
20
10
.667
119
94
+25
June
10
16
.385
111
110
+1
July
13
11
.542
111
109
+2
August
16
12
.571
139
101
+38
Sept/Oct
16
10
.615
118
84
+34
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
47-34
.580
Road
39-42
.481
One-run games
24-32
.429
Extra innings
6-9
.400
Within the division
37-35
.514
Against .500+ clubs
45-48
.484
Decided by 5+ runs
24-10
.706
Last 10
5-5
.500
American League East standings, 2008
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League East, 2008. 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
29,635
28,518
15,686
50,171
Night
51
27,051
25,129
15,686
50,171
Day
30
34,027
33,708
23,157
44,896
Weekend
39
33,416
32,477
21,057
50,171
Weekday
42
26,123
25,129
15,686
44,346
On the road
80
30,274
28,734
8,269
53,634
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
26,865
May
14
24,355
Jun
15
28,714
Jul
12
32,056
Aug
13
34,837
Sep
15
31,254
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 160 completed games, 2008.
Regulation
2:47
145 games
All games
2:52
Extra innings
3:37
15 of them
Longest
4:53
2008-04-16, 14 inn
Shortest
2:02
2008-06-10
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
160
2:52
2:47
2:02
4:53
Regulation
145
2:47
2:45
2:02
3:53
Extra innings
15
3:37
3:35
2:46
4:53
Home
81
2:51
2:43
2:02
4:53
Road
79
2:52
2:51
2:03
3:53
Day
51
2:54
2:47
2:12
4:15
Night
109
2:51
2:47
2:02
4:53
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
3:12
May
14
2:41
Jun
15
2:49
Jul
12
2:46
Aug
13
2:48
Sep
15
2:53
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
Toronto Blue Jays are 86-76, a .531 win rate, while their +104 run differential implies .572. That is about 7 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
