Winning An Inordinate Number Of Games By 5+ Runs
Posted by Steve Lombardi on September 19th, 2007 · Comments (8)
Paul Katcher, a big Yankees fan, has been wondering about the Yankees “winning an inordinate number of games by 5+ runs.”
Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com’s Situational Records tool, we can see that the 2007 Yankees need four more such wins to set the all-time record. Pretty cool. See the top teams, to date, below:
From 1901 To 2007 and Greater Than or Equal to a 5 Run Margin of Victory
Rk Team Year Games Wins Losses Win% RS RA pWin% 1. NYY 1936 66 47 19 .712 574 304 .762 2. NYY 1931 53 44 9 .830 530 230 .822 3. NYY 2007 63 44 19 .698 464 300 .690 4. NYY 1927 51 43 8 .843 464 174 .858 5. PIT 1902 51 43 8 .843 403 159 .846 6. CLE 1948 56 43 13 .768 410 183 .814 7. BRO 1949 53 42 11 .792 435 227 .767 8. NYY 1998 55 42 13 .764 442 226 .773 9. NYY 1921 57 42 15 .737 464 284 .711 10. NYY 1939 47 41 6 .872 480 145 .899 11. NYG 1905 53 41 12 .774 397 183 .805 12. CLE 1920 55 41 14 .745 404 231 .736 13. PIT 1922 56 41 15 .732 418 254 .713 14. NYY 1932 50 39 11 .780 452 240 .761 15. NYY 1997 52 39 13 .750 409 208 .775 16. NYG 1929 52 39 13 .750 424 241 .738 17. BOS 1903 52 39 13 .750 370 205 .747 18. NYY 1937 52 39 13 .750 457 226 .784 19. BOS 1950 54 39 15 .722 499 290 .730 20. NYY 1958 58 39 19 .672 410 255 .705 21. PHA 1930 58 39 19 .672 472 332 .656 22. BOS 1948 60 39 21 .650 452 323 .649 23. CHW 2002 66 39 27 .591 445 366 .588 24. STL 1930 49 38 11 .776 458 261 .737 25. PHA 1932 52 38 14 .731 471 277 .725 26. DET 1935 52 38 14 .731 432 231 .759 27. STL 1985 53 38 15 .717 322 186 .732 28. NYY 2006 59 38 21 .644 439 311 .653
1.5!
Incredible, so long as they continue to ride the wave through October.
Thanks for looking this up.
Notice how all of the top-14 teams are pre-1950, save this year’s Yanks or the incredible 1998 club? Those other 12 teams played 154-game schedules. Odd, no?
Sure are a lot of NYYs at the top of that list. Ha.
I was at the game tonight. Electric atmosphere. Crowd went nuts when Joba entered. Went even crazier when the 6-1 Jays lead was flashed on the board. All in all, a great night at the stadium.
Q: Since Joba pitched only 1/3 of an inning does he only need to sit out 1/3 of the next game?
I can’t figure out how to plug this in on baseball reference, but could someone calculate how many games the Yankees have lost by five or more runs this year? It has to be up there. It seems like a lot.
I’m sure it’s easy enough for me to look up, but how well do teams winning lots of games by 5+ runs do in the playoffs?
~~~It has to be up there. It seems like a lot.
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Well, I know that it’s less than 64. {wink}
To see any team’s W-L record in such splits as games decided by 1 run and 5+ runs, just go to its main baseball-reference.com page.
2007 Yankees
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/2007_sched.shtml
Yanks are 44-19 in games decided by 5+ runs, for a .698 winning percentage in blowouts. That’s damn good.
Yanks are 15-18 (.455) in one-run games, which I’d never expect from a team with Mariano Rivera. The Red Sux, surprisingly, are also under-.500 this season in one-run games.