The St. Louis Cardinals went 86-76 in 2010, a .531 winning percentage — 12th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 736 runs and allowed 641, a run differential of +95. The offence ranked 14th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.67 staff ERA was 5th of 30. Their 102 team wRC+ was 2% above league average — 13th of 30 in MLB. Albert Pujols led the position players at 6.8 WAR, and Adam Wainwright the rotation at a 2.42 ERA.
The 2010 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 2nd in the NL Central, 5 games back. They spent 82 of 182 days in first place, led by as many as 5 games on May 3 and were as far as 8 games back on September 1. Their best month was March/April at 15-8, their worst August at 11-15. The longest runs were an 8-game winning streak from July 11 to July 21 and a 5-game losing streak from August 14 to August 20. They were 52-29 at home and 34-47 on the road, 20-22 in one-run games and 37-23 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 11-1 against the Pirates on July 31; the heaviest defeat, 18-4 against the Astros on August 3.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
15
8
.652
105
73
+32
May
15
14
.517
128
109
+19
June
13
13
.500
109
103
+6
July
15
11
.577
122
98
+24
August
11
15
.423
129
121
+8
Sept/Oct
17
15
.531
143
137
+6
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
52-29
.642
Road
34-47
.420
One-run games
20-22
.476
Extra innings
6-8
.429
Within the division
39-39
.500
Against .500+ clubs
37-23
.617
Decided by 5+ runs
33-18
.647
Last 10
8-2
.800
National League Central standings, 2010
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2010. 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
40,756
40,720
35,257
46,918
Night
51
40,306
40,269
35,257
45,783
Day
30
41,520
41,904
35,371
46,918
Weekend
39
42,392
43,276
36,293
46,313
Weekday
42
39,237
39,161
35,257
46,918
On the road
81
30,690
33,149
11,785
51,078
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
38,903
May
13
40,035
Jun
14
40,309
Jul
14
41,848
Aug
12
43,659
Sep
14
40,027
Oct
3
39,445
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 162 completed games, 2010.
Regulation
2:47
148 games
All games
2:52
Extra innings
3:46
14 of them
Longest
6:53
2010-04-17, 20 inn
Shortest
2:15
2010-06-19
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
162
2:52
2:47
1:52
6:53
Regulation
148
2:47
2:45
1:52
3:53
Extra innings
14
3:46
3:37
2:23
6:53
Home
81
2:52
2:44
2:15
6:53
Road
81
2:52
2:47
1:52
4:35
Day
59
2:55
2:48
1:52
6:53
Night
103
2:50
2:46
2:00
4:35
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
3:04
May
13
2:50
Jun
14
2:55
Jul
14
2:51
Aug
12
2:52
Sep
14
2:42
Oct
3
2:47
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 167 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 86-76, a .531 win rate, while their +95 run differential implies .563. That is about 5 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
