The St. Louis Cardinals went 88-74 in 2018, a .543 winning percentage — 13th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 759 runs and allowed 691, a run differential of +68. The offence ranked 11th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.84 staff ERA was 10th of 30. Their 105 team wRC+ was 5% above league average — 8th of 30 in MLB. Matt Carpenter led the position players at 5.3 WAR, and Miles Mikolas the rotation at a 2.83 ERA.
The 2018 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the NL Central, 7.5 games back. They spent 14 of 187 days in first place, led by as many as 1.5 games on May 6 and were as far as 9 games back on July 26. Their best month was August at 22-6, their worst June at 12-15. The longest runs were an 8-game winning streak from August 7 to August 15 and a 4-game losing streak from June 12 to June 16. They were 43-38 at home and 45-36 on the road, 22-22 in one-run games and 50-43 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 18-5 at the Cubs on July 20; the heaviest defeat, 17-4 against the Dodgers on September 15.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
15
12
.556
126
101
+25
May
15
12
.556
111
111
0
June
12
15
.444
108
126
-18
July
12
14
.462
131
125
+6
August
22
6
.786
148
82
+66
Sept/Oct
12
15
.444
135
146
-11
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
43-38
.531
Road
45-36
.556
One-run games
22-22
.500
Extra innings
8-8
.500
Within the division
41-35
.539
Against .500+ clubs
50-43
.538
Decided by 5+ runs
28-19
.596
Last 10
4-6
.400
National League Central standings, 2018
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2018. 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
42,020
42,007
33,448
47,514
Night
55
41,512
41,039
33,448
47,169
Day
26
43,093
44,431
35,814
47,514
Weekend
38
45,121
45,776
40,468
47,514
Weekday
43
39,279
39,606
33,448
46,512
On the road
81
29,274
27,760
7,230
48,247
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
39,706
May
15
41,987
Jun
17
43,597
Jul
9
45,283
Aug
13
39,603
Sep
15
42,251
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, 2018.
Regulation
3:07
146 games
All games
3:10
Extra innings
3:46
16 of them
Longest
4:46
2018-05-06, 14 inn
Shortest
2:25
2018-06-03
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
3:10
3:07
2:25
4:46
Regulation
146
3:07
3:04
2:25
4:10
Extra innings
16
3:46
3:42
3:04
4:46
Home
81
3:10
3:07
2:25
4:46
Road
81
3:11
3:08
2:25
4:16
Day
60
3:07
3:03
2:25
4:11
Night
102
3:13
3:12
2:25
4:46
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
3:16
May
15
3:14
Jun
17
2:59
Jul
9
3:02
Aug
13
3:11
Sep
15
3:18
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 187 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 +68 run differential implies .543. That is essentially in line — the record reflects the run scoring.
