The Washington Nationals went 82-80 in 2018, a .506 winning percentage — 16th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 771 runs and allowed 682, a run differential of +89. The offence ranked 8th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.00 staff ERA was 16th of 30. Their 103 team wRC+ was 3% above league average — 13th of 30 in MLB. Anthony Rendon led the position players at 5.6 WAR, and Max Scherzer the rotation at a 2.53 ERA.
The 2018 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 2nd in the NL East, 8 games back. They spent 16 of 186 days in first place, led by as many as 1.5 games on April 2 and were as far as 10 games back on September 23. Their best month was May at 20-7, their worst June at 9-16. The longest runs were a 6-game winning streak from April 29 to May 4 and a 5-game losing streak from April 3 to April 8. They were 41-40 at home and 41-40 on the road, 18-24 in one-run games and 33-44 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 25-4 against the Mets on July 31; the heaviest defeat, 12-0 at the Rockies on September 30.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
13
16
.448
126
122
+4
May
20
7
.741
119
71
+48
June
9
16
.360
100
119
-19
July
11
14
.440
140
114
+26
August
14
15
.483
137
125
+12
Sept/Oct
15
12
.556
149
131
+18
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
41-40
.506
Road
41-40
.506
One-run games
18-24
.429
Extra innings
4-10
.286
Within the division
41-35
.539
Against .500+ clubs
33-44
.429
Decided by 5+ runs
26-17
.605
Last 10
5-5
.500
National League East standings, 2018
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League East, 2018. 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
80
31,620
31,568
19,357
42,723
Night
46
30,692
30,888
19,357
42,723
Day
34
32,876
32,194
21,109
42,528
Weekend
38
33,613
32,998
21,579
41,591
Weekday
42
29,817
28,908
19,357
42,723
On the road
80
28,102
27,062
7,512
51,297
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
26,980
May
13
31,339
Jun
12
35,891
Jul
10
36,096
Aug
16
30,969
Sep
16
28,584
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, 2018.
Regulation
3:03
147 games
All games
3:08
Extra innings
3:51
14 of them
Longest
4:16
2018-09-20, 12 inn
Shortest
2:16
2018-06-05
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
3:08
3:07
2:16
4:28
Regulation
147
3:03
3:03
2:16
4:14
Extra innings
14
3:51
3:49
3:16
4:28
Home
80
3:09
3:04
2:16
4:16
Road
81
3:07
3:09
2:24
4:28
Day
63
3:08
3:06
2:24
4:28
Night
98
3:07
3:08
2:16
4:16
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
3:02
May
13
3:00
Jun
12
3:02
Jul
10
3:14
Aug
16
3:01
Sep
15
3:31
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 183 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
Washington Nationals are 82-80, a .506 win rate, while their +89 run differential implies .556. That is about 8 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
