The St. Louis Cardinals went 83-79 in 2017, a .512 winning percentage — 12th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 761 runs and allowed 705, a run differential of +56. The offence ranked 13th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.98 staff ERA was 8th of 30. Their 106 team wRC+ was 6% above league average — 5th of 30 in MLB. Tommy Pham led the position players at 4.8 WAR, and Carlos Martinez the rotation at a 3.64 ERA.
The 2017 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the NL Central, 9 games back. They spent 13 of 183 days in first place, led by as many as 1.5 games on May 15 and were as far as 9 games back on September 29. Their best month was Sept/Oct at 16-13, their worst June at 13-16. The longest runs were an 8-game winning streak from August 5 to August 12 and a 7-game losing streak from June 2 to June 8. They were 44-37 at home and 39-42 on the road, 24-29 in one-run games and 27-44 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 10-0 at the Braves on May 5; the heaviest defeat, 13-1 at the Reds on June 6.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
12
12
.500
99
106
-7
May
13
13
.500
111
106
+5
June
13
16
.448
147
139
+8
July
14
12
.538
112
94
+18
August
15
13
.536
162
136
+26
Sept/Oct
16
13
.552
130
124
+6
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
44-37
.543
Road
39-42
.481
One-run games
24-29
.453
Extra innings
5-9
.357
Within the division
34-42
.447
Against .500+ clubs
27-44
.380
Decided by 5+ runs
28-17
.622
Last 10
3-7
.300
National League Central standings, 2017
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2017. 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
42,567
42,516
36,250
48,052
Night
55
42,067
41,706
36,250
48,052
Day
26
43,626
44,254
37,780
47,925
Weekend
39
44,471
44,534
40,050
48,052
Weekday
42
40,799
40,193
36,250
46,760
On the road
81
31,325
31,499
2,596
48,372
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
43,021
May
14
43,047
Jun
13
43,359
Jul
16
41,668
Aug
11
41,885
Sep
12
42,258
Oct
1
44,787
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, 2017.
Regulation
3:01
148 games
All games
3:04
Extra innings
3:36
14 of them
Longest
4:20
2017-05-17, 13 inn
Shortest
2:14
2017-04-17
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
3:04
3:02
2:14
4:20
Regulation
148
3:01
3:00
2:14
3:55
Extra innings
14
3:36
3:32
2:58
4:20
Home
81
3:03
3:04
2:14
4:20
Road
81
3:04
3:01
2:21
4:06
Day
53
2:58
2:58
2:21
4:06
Night
109
3:06
3:04
2:14
4:20
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
14
2:59
May
14
3:11
Jun
13
3:01
Jul
16
3:03
Aug
11
3:09
Sep
12
3:01
Oct
1
2:24
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 181 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 83-79, a .512 win rate, while their +56 run differential implies .535. That is about 4 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
