The Toronto Blue Jays went 75-87 in 2009, a .463 winning percentage — 22nd of 30 record in baseball. They scored 798 runs and allowed 771, a run differential of +27. The offence ranked 8th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.45 staff ERA was 20th of 30. Their 107 team wRC+ was 7% above league average — 6th of 30 in MLB. Aaron Hill led the position players at 4.5 WAR, and Roy Halladay the rotation at a 2.79 ERA.
The 2009 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 4th in the AL East, 28 games back. They spent 42 of 184 days in first place, led by as many as 3.5 games on May 18 and were as far as 28.5 games back on September 19. Their best month was March/April at 15-9, their worst July at 8-16. The longest runs were a 6-game winning streak from September 25 to September 30 and a 9-game losing streak from May 19 to May 27. They were 44-37 at home and 31-50 on the road, 21-28 in one-run games and 44-63 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 14-0 at the White Sox on April 24; the heaviest defeat, 10-0 against the Phillies on June 27.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
15
9
.625
142
112
+30
May
14
15
.483
128
129
-1
June
12
14
.462
121
115
+6
July
8
16
.333
108
104
+4
August
10
16
.385
123
147
-24
Sept/Oct
16
17
.485
176
164
+12
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
44-37
.543
Road
31-50
.383
One-run games
21-28
.429
Extra innings
7-13
.350
Within the division
26-46
.361
Against .500+ clubs
44-63
.411
Decided by 5+ runs
29-21
.580
Last 10
6-4
.600
American League East standings, 2009
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League East, 2009. 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
23,162
21,698
11,159
48,027
Night
47
20,840
18,272
11,159
48,027
Day
34
26,372
26,996
11,461
39,052
Weekend
39
25,793
23,935
15,435
39,052
Weekday
42
20,719
17,246
11,159
48,027
On the road
80
27,486
25,327
9,593
47,113
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
10
20,397
May
15
25,412
Jun
17
21,555
Jul
10
28,699
Aug
14
24,226
Sep
15
19,893
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, 2009.
Regulation
2:51
141 games
All games
2:56
Extra innings
3:30
20 of them
Longest
4:24
2009-07-25, 12 inn
Shortest
2:09
2009-06-07
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
2:56
2:52
2:06
4:24
Regulation
141
2:51
2:49
2:06
4:05
Extra innings
20
3:30
3:27
2:46
4:24
Home
81
2:52
2:50
2:09
4:24
Road
80
3:00
2:55
2:06
4:05
Day
60
2:56
2:52
2:09
4:24
Night
101
2:56
2:52
2:06
4:05
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
10
2:51
May
15
2:50
Jun
17
2:46
Jul
10
2:50
Aug
14
3:02
Sep
15
2:56
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 171 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 75-87, a .463 win rate, while their +27 run differential implies .516. That is about 9 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
