The St. Louis Cardinals went 97-65 in 2013, a .599 winning percentage — the best record in baseball. They scored 783 runs and allowed 596, a run differential of +187. The offence ranked the third best in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.41 staff ERA was 4th of 30. Their 108 team wRC+ was 8% above league average — 6th of 30 in MLB. Matt Carpenter led the position players at 6.8 WAR, and Adam Wainwright the rotation at a 2.94 ERA.
The 2013 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished first in the NL Central, 3 games clear. They spent 130 of 183 days in first place, led by as many as 4 games on June 7 and were as far as 4 games back on August 8. Their best month was May at 20-7, their worst June at 14-14. The longest runs were a 6-game winning streak from April 30 to May 5 and a 7-game losing streak from July 26 to July 31. They were 54-27 at home and 43-38 on the road, 20-16 in one-run games and 39-36 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 13-0 at the Pirates on August 1; the heaviest defeat, 10-0 against the Reds on August 28.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
15
11
.577
117
93
+24
May
20
7
.741
133
85
+48
June
14
14
.500
151
111
+40
July
13
12
.520
104
97
+7
August
16
13
.552
141
125
+16
Sept/Oct
19
8
.704
137
85
+52
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
54-27
.667
Road
43-38
.531
One-run games
20-16
.556
Extra innings
6-6
.500
Within the division
46-30
.605
Against .500+ clubs
39-36
.520
Decided by 5+ runs
35-17
.673
Last 10
8-2
.800
2013 postseason
In October the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pirates 3-2 in the NLDS, beat the Dodgers 4-2 in the NLCS, then lost the World Series to the Red Sox 4-2.
NLDS vs Pirates3-2 W
Game 1, October 3 W 9-1 vs Pirates
Game 2, October 4 L 1-7 vs Pirates
Game 3, October 6 L 3-5 at Pirates
Game 4, October 7 W 2-1 at Pirates
Game 5, October 9 W 6-1 vs Pirates
NLCS vs Dodgers4-2 W
Game 1, October 11 W 3-2 vs Dodgers
Game 2, October 12 W 1-0 vs Dodgers
Game 3, October 14 L 0-3 at Dodgers
Game 4, October 15 W 4-2 at Dodgers
Game 5, October 16 L 4-6 at Dodgers
Game 6, October 18 W 9-0 vs Dodgers
World Series vs Red Sox2-4 L
Game 1, October 23 L 1-8 at Red Sox
Game 2, October 24 W 4-2 at Red Sox
Game 3, October 26 W 5-4 vs Red Sox
Game 4, October 27 L 2-4 vs Red Sox
Game 5, October 28 L 1-3 vs Red Sox
Game 6, October 30 L 1-6 at Red Sox
National League Central standings, 2013
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2013. 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
41,602
42,464
34,882
47,345
Night
57
41,287
42,410
35,050
46,177
Day
24
42,351
42,583
34,882
47,345
Weekend
39
42,793
43,050
37,800
46,177
Weekday
42
40,496
40,621
34,882
47,345
On the road
80
32,374
34,174
9,570
50,124
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
40,956
May
13
40,672
Jun
14
42,856
Jul
11
44,678
Aug
17
40,866
Sep
15
40,290
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, 2013.
Regulation
2:55
149 games
All games
3:01
Extra innings
4:18
12 of them
Longest
4:55
2013-08-13, 14 inn
Shortest
2:10
2013-09-24
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
3:01
2:55
2:07
5:32
Regulation
149
2:55
2:53
2:07
3:47
Extra innings
12
4:18
4:04
3:15
5:32
Home
81
2:59
2:54
2:10
4:55
Road
80
3:03
2:56
2:07
5:32
Day
49
3:00
2:53
2:28
5:09
Night
112
3:02
2:56
2:07
5:32
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
2:54
May
13
2:51
Jun
14
2:58
Jul
11
2:57
Aug
17
3:13
Sep
15
2:56
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 175 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 97-65, a .599 win rate, while their +187 run differential implies .622. That is about 4 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
