The St. Louis Cardinals went 100-62 in 2015, a .617 winning percentage — the best record in baseball. They scored 647 runs and allowed 525, a run differential of +122. The offence ranked 24th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 2.95 staff ERA was the best. Their 100 team wRC+ was 0% below league average — 14th of 30 in MLB. Matt Carpenter led the position players at 5.9 WAR, and Carlos Martinez the rotation at a 3.01 ERA.
The 2015 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished first in the NL Central, 2 games clear. They spent 175 of 183 days in first place, led by as many as 9 games on June 28 and were as far as 2.5 games back on April 10. Their best month was March/April at 15-6, their worst Sept/Oct at 15-16. The longest runs were an 8-game winning streak from April 28 to May 5 and a 4-game losing streak from June 30 to July 3. They were 55-26 at home and 45-36 on the road, 32-23 in one-run games and 46-31 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 12-2 against the Mets on July 18; the heaviest defeat, 11-0 at the Reds on September 10.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
15
6
.714
92
55
+37
May
18
11
.621
117
94
+23
June
18
8
.692
101
64
+37
July
15
12
.556
103
87
+16
August
19
9
.679
119
92
+27
Sept/Oct
15
16
.484
115
133
-18
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
55-26
.679
Road
45-36
.556
One-run games
32-23
.582
Extra innings
8-8
.500
Within the division
46-30
.605
Against .500+ clubs
46-31
.597
Decided by 5+ runs
22-16
.579
Last 10
4-6
.400
National League Central standings, 2015
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2015. 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
43,468
43,654
40,052
47,875
Night
58
43,215
43,050
40,052
47,330
Day
23
44,105
44,690
40,079
47,875
Weekend
38
44,726
45,039
40,742
47,330
Weekday
43
42,356
42,081
40,052
47,875
On the road
80
31,318
32,746
12,313
47,655
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
10
42,320
May
16
43,573
Jun
11
44,030
Jul
17
43,933
Aug
12
42,294
Sep
15
44,121
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, 2015.
Regulation
2:53
145 games
All games
3:00
Extra innings
3:59
16 of them
Longest
5:55
2015-07-19, 18 inn
Shortest
2:02
2015-04-19
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
3:00
2:57
2:02
5:55
Regulation
145
2:53
2:55
2:02
3:50
Extra innings
16
3:59
3:49
3:14
5:55
Home
81
3:00
2:56
2:02
5:55
Road
80
3:00
2:59
2:14
5:04
Day
50
3:01
2:56
2:14
5:55
Night
111
3:00
2:58
2:02
5:04
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
10
2:41
May
16
3:16
Jun
11
2:50
Jul
17
3:04
Aug
12
2:54
Sep
15
3:01
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 173 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 100-62, a .617 win rate, while their +122 run differential implies .594. That is about 4 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
