The St. Louis Cardinals went 90-72 in 2021, a .556 winning percentage — 11th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 706 runs and allowed 672, a run differential of +34. The offence ranked 20th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.09 staff ERA was 13th of 30. Their 104 team wRC+ was 4% above league average — 9th of 30 in MLB. Paul Goldschmidt led the position players at 4.7 WAR, and Adam Wainwright the rotation at a 3.05 ERA.
The 2021 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 2nd in the NL Central, 5 games back. They spent 31 of 186 days in first place, led by as many as 3.5 games on May 19 and were as far as 15 games back on September 10. Their best month was Sept/Oct at 23-9, their worst June at 10-17. The longest runs were a 17-game winning streak from September 11 to September 28 and a 6-game losing streak from June 2 to June 8. They were 45-36 at home and 45-36 on the road, 26-19 in one-run games and 32-36 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 13-0 at the Pirates on August 28; the heaviest defeat, 12-1 at the Reds on April 4.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
14
12
.538
117
108
+9
May
16
12
.571
116
125
-9
June
10
17
.370
86
128
-42
July
12
11
.522
96
95
+1
August
15
11
.577
122
93
+29
Sept/Oct
23
9
.719
169
123
+46
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
45-36
.556
Road
45-36
.556
One-run games
26-19
.578
Extra innings
7-2
.778
Within the division
42-34
.553
Against .500+ clubs
32-36
.471
Decided by 5+ runs
24-24
.500
Last 10
7-3
.700
National League Central standings, 2021
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2021. 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
80
26,282
28,122
12,686
46,525
Night
53
27,316
28,740
12,686
45,239
Day
27
24,251
24,682
12,939
46,525
Weekend
38
28,106
29,511
13,176
46,525
Weekday
42
24,631
26,557
12,686
43,575
On the road
81
20,518
17,834
4,605
48,182
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
13,074
May
12
15,174
Jun
16
24,890
Jul
9
35,905
Aug
15
29,864
Sep
13
34,442
Oct
3
44,461
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, 2021.
Regulation
3:08
152 games
All games
3:11
Extra innings
3:47
9 of them
Longest
4:09
2021-07-21, 10 inn
Shortest
2:22
2021-04-26
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
3:11
3:10
1:58
4:34
Regulation
152
3:08
3:08
1:58
4:08
Extra innings
9
3:47
3:50
3:10
4:34
Home
80
3:07
3:06
2:22
4:09
Road
81
3:14
3:16
1:58
4:34
Day
55
3:10
3:06
2:16
4:08
Night
106
3:11
3:12
1:58
4:34
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
3:04
May
12
3:06
Jun
16
3:11
Jul
9
3:09
Aug
15
3:15
Sep
13
2:51
Oct
2
3:25
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 188 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 90-72, a .556 win rate, while their +34 run differential implies .523. That is about 5 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
