The St. Louis Cardinals went 78-84 in 2007, a .481 winning percentage — 18th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 725 runs and allowed 829, a run differential of -104. The offence ranked 22nd of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.78 staff ERA was 23rd of 30. Their 98 team wRC+ was 2% below league average — 19th of 30 in MLB. Albert Pujols led the position players at 5.4 WAR, and Adam Wainwright the rotation at a 3.70 ERA.
The 2007 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the NL Central, 7 games back. They spent 4 of 184 days in first place and were as far as 10.5 games back on June 27. Their best month was July at 15-11, their worst March/April at 10-14. The longest runs were a 5-game winning streak from August 11 to August 16 and a 9-game losing streak from September 7 to September 15. They were 43-38 at home and 35-46 on the road, 16-20 in one-run games and 37-50 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 16-4 against the Pirates on September 6; the heaviest defeat, 18-1 against the Astros on September 20.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
10
14
.417
82
111
-29
May
12
15
.444
112
141
-29
June
13
13
.500
127
146
-19
July
15
11
.577
137
135
+2
August
15
13
.536
126
117
+9
Sept/Oct
13
18
.419
141
179
-38
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
43-38
.531
Road
35-46
.432
One-run games
16-20
.444
Extra innings
7-4
.636
Within the division
43-37
.537
Against .500+ clubs
37-50
.425
Decided by 5+ runs
25-38
.397
Last 10
7-3
.700
National League Central standings, 2007
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2007. 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
43,854
43,934
42,029
46,237
Night
58
43,697
43,535
42,029
46,237
Day
23
44,251
44,483
42,238
45,918
Weekend
40
44,763
44,890
42,356
46,237
Weekday
41
42,967
42,503
42,029
45,440
On the road
81
33,050
36,062
9,959
53,953
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
43,825
May
12
43,601
Jun
12
43,898
Jul
14
44,453
Aug
14
43,436
Sep
17
43,873
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, 2007.
Regulation
2:51
150 games
All games
2:55
Extra innings
3:48
11 of them
Longest
5:21
2007-06-20, 14 inn
Shortest
2:10
2007-06-19
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
2:55
2:50
2:10
5:21
Regulation
150
2:51
2:48
2:10
3:38
Extra innings
11
3:48
3:39
3:01
5:21
Home
81
2:54
2:48
2:10
5:21
Road
80
2:55
2:51
2:20
3:53
Day
50
2:51
2:49
2:27
3:39
Night
111
2:56
2:50
2:10
5:21
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
2:45
May
12
2:49
Jun
12
3:07
Jul
14
2:49
Aug
14
2:49
Sep
17
3:04
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
St. Louis Cardinals are 78-84, a .481 win rate, while their -104 run differential implies .439. That is about 7 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
