Aug 31, 2015
Jays close out one of baseball's best Augusts ever
The Toronto Blue Jays will close out their remarkable month of August on Monday night at the Rogers Centre against Danny Salazar and the Cleveland Indians. The team is already 21-5 for the month that has seen them surge to 18 games above .500 after being one game under at the All-Star break. Where does this August rank among baseball's best?
TSN.ca Staff
The Cleveland Indians will feed Danny Salazar to the wolves on Monday night at the Rogers Centre…well, that’s what it will feel like when the Tribe become the latest and final team to take on the Toronto Blue Jays in their record-breaking month of August that has seen the team score an average of 6.61 runs a game
Heading into the final game of the month, the Jays are sporting a frankly absurd 21-5 mark for August, which will go down as the best record for a month in the franchise's 39-year history.
BEST BLUE JAYS MONTHS EVER
Month | Year | Record | Winning Percentage |
---|---|---|---|
August | 2015 | 21-5 | 0.806 |
May | 1984 | 19-6 | 0.76 |
Sept./Oct. | 1988 | 22-7 | 0.759 |
July | 1999 | 19-7 | 0.731 |
Sept./Oct. | 2003 | 19-7 | 0.731 |
May | 2003 | 21-8 | 0.724 |
Sept./Oct. | 2002 | 19-8 | 0.704 |
May | 2014 | 21-9 | 0.7 |
Sept./Oct. | 1992 | 21-9 | 0.7 |
If the Jays were to win tonight, their clip for the month moves to .814, while a loss would dip it to .777 for August. So where does that leave the 2015 Toronto Blue Jays among baseball's best in the month?
BEST AUGUSTS IN MLB HISTORY
TEAM | YEAR | RECORD | WINNING PERCENTAGE | FINISHED |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chicago Cubs | 1906 | 26-3 | .897 | Lost in World Series |
New York Giants | 1936 | 24-3 | .889 | Won World Series |
Oakland Athletics | 2002 | 24-4 | .857 | Lost in ALDS |
St. Louis Cardinals | 1944 | 23-4 | .852 | Won World Series |
Chicago White Sox | 1906 | 21-4 | .840 | Won World Series |
Toronto Blue Jays* | 2015 | 22-5 | .814 | ? |
Cleveland Indians | 1954 | 26-6 | .813 | Won World Series |
Brooklyn Dodgers | 1953 | 25-6 | .806 | Lost in World Series |
New York Yankees | 1938 | 28-8 | .778 | Won World Series |
Toronto Blue Jays% | 2015 | 21-6 | .777 | ? |
St. Louis Cardinals | 1942 | 25-8 | .758 | Won World Series |
New York Yankees | 2009 | 21-7 | .750 | Won World Series |
St. Louis Cardinals | 2004 | 21-7 | .750 | Lost in World Series |
Milwakee Brewers | 2011 | 21-7 | .750 | Lost in NLCS |
* - with a win
% - with a loss
While the month certainly puts the Jays in lofty company, all will go for naught if the team's 21-year playoff drought doesn't come to an end in October.