The St. Louis Cardinals went 88-74 in 2012, a .543 winning percentage — 12th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 765 runs and allowed 648, a run differential of +117. The offence ranked 5th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.75 staff ERA was 10th of 30. Their 109 team wRC+ was 9% above league average — 4th of 30 in MLB. Yadier Molina led the position players at 5.4 WAR, and Adam Wainwright the rotation at a 3.94 ERA.
The 2012 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 2nd in the NL Central, 9 games back. They spent 50 of 183 days in first place, led by as many as 4.5 games on May 2 and were as far as 11.5 games back on September 12. Their best month was March/April at 14-8, their worst May at 13-16. The longest runs were a 5-game winning streak from June 22 to June 26 and a 5-game losing streak from May 29 to June 3. They were 50-31 at home and 38-43 on the road, 21-26 in one-run games and 39-40 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 13-1 against the Brewers on April 27; the heaviest defeat, 15-0 against the Giants on August 8.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
14
8
.636
113
60
+53
May
13
16
.448
157
145
+12
June
13
14
.481
120
129
-9
July
15
10
.600
119
76
+43
August
16
13
.552
124
127
-3
Sept/Oct
17
13
.567
132
111
+21
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
50-31
.617
Road
38-43
.469
One-run games
21-26
.447
Extra innings
6-12
.333
Within the division
45-32
.584
Against .500+ clubs
39-40
.494
Decided by 5+ runs
31-17
.646
Last 10
7-3
.700
2012 postseason
In October the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Braves 1-0 in the Wild Card Series, beat the Nationals 3-2 in the NLDS, then lost the NLCS to the Giants 4-3.
Wild Card Series vs Braves1-0 W
Game 1, October 5 W 6-3 at Braves
NLDS vs Nationals3-2 W
Game 1, October 7 L 2-3 vs Nationals
Game 2, October 8 W 12-4 vs Nationals
Game 3, October 10 W 8-0 at Nationals
Game 4, October 11 L 1-2 at Nationals
Game 5, October 12 W 9-7 at Nationals
NLCS vs Giants3-4 L
Game 1, October 14 W 6-4 at Giants
Game 2, October 15 L 1-7 at Giants
Game 3, October 17 W 3-1 vs Giants
Game 4, October 18 W 8-3 vs Giants
Game 5, October 19 L 0-5 vs Giants
Game 6, October 21 L 1-6 at Giants
Game 7, October 22 L 0-9 at Giants
National League Central standings, 2012
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2012. 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
40,273
40,601
30,090
46,882
Night
53
40,131
40,360
33,572
46,721
Day
28
40,542
41,132
30,090
46,882
Weekend
39
42,353
42,264
37,162
46,882
Weekday
42
38,342
38,857
30,090
45,538
On the road
81
31,437
30,491
12,584
46,086
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
42,402
May
15
41,913
Jun
11
41,811
Jul
15
40,974
Aug
16
37,607
Sep
12
37,910
Oct
3
40,211
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, 2012.
Regulation
2:54
144 games
All games
3:01
Extra innings
3:55
18 of them
Longest
6:07
2012-08-19, 19 inn
Shortest
2:14
2012-06-09
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
3:01
2:57
2:14
6:07
Regulation
144
2:54
2:54
2:14
3:45
Extra innings
18
3:55
3:48
3:03
6:07
Home
81
3:02
2:53
2:14
6:07
Road
81
3:00
2:58
2:16
4:25
Day
58
3:09
3:03
2:16
6:07
Night
104
2:56
2:54
2:14
4:30
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
2:44
May
15
3:03
Jun
11
3:00
Jul
15
3:03
Aug
16
3:03
Sep
12
3:16
Oct
3
2:40
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 174 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 88-74, a .543 win rate, while their +117 run differential implies .575. That is about 5 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
