1968 St. Louis Cardinals Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 97-65
Finished 1st in the NL
Attendance: 2,011,167, Avg. 26,468
Ballpark: Busch Stadium II
Won League Championship Series
World Series - Lost to Detroit Tigers 4-3
Manager: Red Schoendienst (97-65)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

1968 St. Louis Cardinals Roster
1968 St. Louis Cardinals Results

The St. Louis Cardinals of the National League ended the 1968 season with a record of 97 wins and 65 losses, finishing first in the NL.

The Cardinals paced the league with just 472 runs allowed. St. Louis scored 583 runs. Orlando Cepeda led the squad with 16 home runs, and Mike Shannon walloped 20 or more, too. Mike Shannon drove in 79 runs. Curt Flood topped hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .301 clip. Bob Gibson paced the squad with 22 wins, while Nelson Briles added 15 or more wins, too Bob Gibson recorded a 1.12 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Red Schoendienst coached the team. The 1968 St. Louis Cardinals won the League Championship Series.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF
Bob Gibson	22	9	.710	1.12	34	34	0	28	13	0	304.7	198	49	38	11	62	6	268	7	4	1161
Nelson Briles	19	11	.633	2.81	33	33	0	13	4	0	243.7	251	90	76	18	55	12	141	7	4	1024
Ray Washburn	14	8	.636	2.26	31	30	1	8	4	0	215.0	191	67	54	9	47	7	124	1	3	861
Steve Carlton	13	11	.542	2.99	34	33	1	10	5	0	231.7	214	87	77	11	61	4	162	3	6	954
Larry Jaster	9	13	.409	3.50	31	21	6	3	1	0	154.3	153	63	60	13	38	5	70	6	2	644
Joe Hoerner	8	2	.800	1.48	47	0	33	0	0	17	48.7	34	9	8	2	12	4	42	0	3	194
Wayne Granger	4	2	.667	2.25	34	0	19	0	0	4	44.0	40	14	11	2	12	3	27	2	2	184
Mike Torrez	2	1	.667	2.79	5	2	0	0	0	0	19.3	20	7	6	1	12	0	6	1	2	87
Mel Nelson	2	1	.667	2.91	18	4	8	1	0	1	52.7	49	20	17	3	9	3	16	0	0	212
Dick Hughes	2	2	.500	3.52	25	5	8	0	0	4	64.0	45	25	25	7	21	3	49	0	1	249
Ron Willis	2	3	.400	3.39	48	0	15	0	0	4	63.7	50	25	24	4	28	11	39	1	1	270
Pete Mikkelsen	0	0		1.13	5	0	2	0	0	0	16.0	10	5	2	0	7	3	8	0	1	65
Hal Gilson	0	2	.000	4.57	13	0	6	0	0	2	21.7	27	11	11	1	11	1	19	0	1	101
Totals	97	65	.599	2.49	358	162	99	63	27	32	1479.3	1282	472	409	82	375	62	971	28	30	6006

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Curt Flood	150	666	618	71	186	17	4	5	60	11	6	33	58	.301	.339	.366	.705	226	8	5	6	4	2
Lou Brock	159	712	660	92	184	46	14	6	51	62	12	46	124	.279	.328	.418	.746	276	4	3	1	2	7
Mike Shannon	156	625	576	62	153	29	2	15	79	1	2	37	114	.266	.309	.401	.710	231	11	2	4	6	5
Orlando Cepeda	157	656	600	71	149	26	2	16	73	8	6	43	96	.248	.306	.378	.685	227	13	9	0	4	13
Julian Javier	139	553	519	54	135	25	4	4	52	10	3	24	61	.260	.291	.347	.638	180	10	1	4	5	2
Dal Maxvill	151	516	459	51	116	8	5	1	24	0	2	52	71	.253	.329	.298	.627	137	8	1	2	2	9
Tim McCarver	128	467	434	35	110	15	6	5	48	4	3	26	31	.253	.295	.350	.645	152	6	1	2	4	8
Roger Maris	100	340	310	25	79	18	2	5	45	0	0	24	38	.255	.307	.374	.681	116	3	1	1	4	3
Bobby Tolan	92	296	278	28	64	12	1	5	17	9	5	13	42	.230	.272	.335	.607	93	8	3	2	0	3
Johnny Edwards	85	252	230	14	55	9	1	3	29	1	1	16	20	.239	.287	.326	.613	75	6	1	1	4	0
Dick Schofield	69	142	127	14	28	7	1	1	8	1	2	13	31	.220	.303	.315	.618	40	1	2	0	0	2
Phil Gagliano	53	115	105	13	24	4	2	0	13	0	0	7	12	.229	.281	.305	.585	32	2	1	1	1	0
Bob Gibson	35	110	94	3	16	5	0	0	6	1	1	7	32	.170	.233	.223	.456	21	1	1	7	1	0
Ron Davis	33	87	79	11	14	4	2	0	5	1	0	5	17	.177	.221	.278	.499	22	2	0	1	2	0
Dick Simpson	26	65	56	11	13	0	0	3	8	0	1	8	21	.232	.323	.393	.716	22	1	0	0	1	2
Steve Carlton	35	79	73	6	12	0	1	2	3	0	0	0	25	.164	.164	.274	.438	20	1	0	6	0	0
Nelson Briles	33	95	80	5	11	2	0	0	5	0	0	4	21	.138	.186	.163	.349	13	2	1	9	1	0
Ed Spiezio	29	57	51	1	8	0	0	0	2	1	1	5	6	.157	.228	.157	.385	8	1	0	0	1	0
Larry Jaster	31	50	43	2	6	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	9	.140	.159	.209	.368	9	0	0	6	0	0
Ray Washburn	31	79	60	5	5	0	1	0	5	0	0	8	38	.083	.191	.117	.308	7	2	0	11	0	0
Joe Hague	7	19	17	2	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	2	.235	.316	.412	.728	7	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Ricketts	20	22	22	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.136	.136	.136	.273	3	0	0	0	0	0
Floyd Wicker	5	4	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Torrez	5	7	7	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	0	0	0
Mel Nelson	18	13	12	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	4	.167	.231	.167	.397	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ted Simmons	2	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.833	1	0	0	0	0	0
Wayne Granger	34	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hal Gilson	13	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Joe Hoerner	47	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Pete Mikkelsen	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Hughes	25	17	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.000	.063	.000	.063	0	0	0	1	0	0
Ron Willis	48	12	11	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.083	.000	.083	0	1	0	0	0	0
Totals	1921	6080	5561	583	1383	227	48	73	539	110	45	378	897	.249	.298	.346	.644	1925	91	32	67	42	56

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Orlando Cepeda	1B	154	154	1388.3	1362	90	17	109	.988	9.413	9.429	0	0	0	0
Bobby Tolan	1B	9	7	78.7	83	9	0	7	1.000	1.525	1.222	0	0	0	0
Joe Hague	1B	2	1	12.0	15	1	0	1	1.000	12.000	8.000	0	0	0	0
Julian Javier	2B	139	135	1222.3	304	339	16	68	.976	4.734	4.626	0	0	0	0
Dick Schofield	2B	23	17	158.7	65	50	3	15	.975	6.523	5.000	0	0	0	0
Phil Gagliano	2B	17	10	98.0	24	32	1	6	.982	5.143	3.294	0	0	0	0
Mike Shannon	3B	156	155	1398.7	110	310	21	25	.952	2.703	2.692	0	0	0	0
Phil Gagliano	3B	10	6	68.3	5	19	0	2	1.000	3.161	2.400	0	0	0	0
Ed Spiezio	3B	2	1	12.0	1	4	0	0	1.000	3.750	2.500	0	0	0	0
Tim McCarver	C	109	108	977.0	708	54	11	6	.986	7.019	6.991	8	20	38	22	36.7
Johnny Edwards	C	54	52	486.7	350	25	3	2	.992	6.935	6.944	1	9	11	14	56.0
Ted Simmons	C	2	1	10.0	3	1	0	0	1.000	3.600	2.000	0	0	0	0
Dave Ricketts	C	1	1	5.3	5	0	0	0	1.000	8.438	5.000	1	1	1	0	0.0
Lou Brock	OF	156	155	1400.3	269	9	14	1	.952	1.787	1.782	0	0	0	0
Curt Flood	OF	149	147	1342.0	386	11	7	4	.983	2.662	2.664	0	0	0	0
Roger Maris	OF	84	71	667.7	169	4	3	1	.983	2.332	2.060	0	0	0	0
Bobby Tolan	OF	67	56	530.7	116	3	4	1	.967	2.018	1.776	0	0	0	0
Ron Davis	OF	25	22	199.0	44	3	1	1	.979	2.126	1.880	0	0	0	0
Dick Simpson	OF	22	18	145.7	26	1	0	0	1.000	1.668	1.227	0	0	0	0
Ed Spiezio	OF	11	10	86.7	19	1	0	1	1.000	2.077	1.818	0	0	0	0
Phil Gagliano	OF	5	4	40.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	.675	.600	0	0	0	0
Joe Hague	OF	3	3	25.0	4	0	1	0	.800	1.440	1.333	0	0	0	0
Bob Gibson	P	34	34	304.7	21	28	1	2	.980	1.447	1.441	0	0	0	0
Nelson Briles	P	33	33	243.7	15	31	2	1	.958	1.699	1.394	0	0	0	0
Steve Carlton	P	34	33	232.0	4	39	3	1	.935	1.668	1.265	0	0	0	0
Ray Washburn	P	31	30	215.3	24	20	1	2	.978	1.839	1.419	0	0	0	0
Larry Jaster	P	31	21	153.7	5	20	0	1	1.000	1.464	.806	0	0	0	0
Ron Willis	P	48	0	63.7	2	15	0	0	1.000	2.403	.354	0	0	0	0
Dick Hughes	P	25	5	63.7	7	10	0	3	1.000	2.403	.680	0	0	0	0
Mel Nelson	P	18	4	52.7	3	9	0	0	1.000	2.051	.667	0	0	0	0
Joe Hoerner	P	47	0	49.0	2	6	1	0	.889	1.469	.170	0	0	0	0
Wayne Granger	P	34	0	44.0	6	14	2	1	.909	4.091	.588	0	0	0	0
Hal Gilson	P	13	0	21.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Mike Torrez	P	5	2	19.0	2	4	1	0	.857	2.842	1.200	0	0	0	0
Pete Mikkelsen	P	5	0	16.0	0	2	2	0	.500	1.125	.400	0	0	0	0
Dal Maxvill	SS	151	149	1293.0	232	458	22	81	.969	4.803	4.570	0	0	0	0
Dick Schofield	SS	43	13	186.0	44	66	3	7	.973	5.323	2.558	0	0	0	0
Totals		1752	1458	13311.0	4437	1689	140	349	.978	4.142	3.497	10	30	50	36	41.9

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BF
Bob Gibson	WS	2	1	.667	1.67	3	3	0	3	1	0	27.0	18	5	5	1	4	1	35	0	101
Ray Washburn	WS	1	1	.500	9.82	2	2	0	0	0	0	7.3	7	8	8	2	7	0	6	0	35
Larry Jaster	WS	0	0			1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	2	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	3
Wayne Granger	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	7
Mel Nelson	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3
Dick Hughes	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Steve Carlton	WS	0	0		6.75	2	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	7	3	3	1	1	0	3	0	19
Ron Willis	WS	0	0		8.31	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.3	2	4	4	0	4	1	3	1	18
Joe Hoerner	WS	0	1	.000	3.86	3	0	2	0	0	1	4.7	5	4	2	0	5	1	3	0	25
Nelson Briles	WS	0	1	.000	5.56	2	2	0	0	0	0	11.3	13	7	7	3	4	1	7	0	50
Totals		3	4	.429	4.65	19	7	4	3	1	1	62.0	56	34	32	8	27	4	59	3	264

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH
Lou Brock	WS	7	31	28	6	13	3	1	2	5	7	2	3	4	.464	.516	.857	1.373	24	0	0	0
Julian Javier	WS	7	30	27	1	9	1	0	0	3	1	1	3	4	.333	.400	.370	.770	10	0	0	0
Tim McCarver	WS	7	30	27	3	9	0	2	1	4	0	1	3	2	.333	.400	.593	.993	16	0	0	0
Curt Flood	WS	7	30	28	4	8	1	0	0	2	3	0	2	2	.286	.333	.321	.655	9	0	0	0
Mike Shannon	WS	7	30	29	3	8	1	0	1	4	0	0	1	5	.276	.300	.414	.714	12	2	0	0
Orlando Cepeda	WS	7	30	28	2	7	0	0	2	6	0	1	2	3	.250	.300	.464	.764	13	0	0	0
Roger Maris	WS	6	22	19	5	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	3	.158	.273	.211	.483	4	1	0	0
Dave Ricketts	WS	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0
Ed Spiezio	WS	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0
Joe Hoerner	WS	3	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0
Bob Gibson	WS	3	10	8	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	2	.125	.222	.500	.722	4	0	0	1
Nelson Briles	WS	2	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	1	0
Ron Davis	WS	2	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Johnny Edwards	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Phil Gagliano	WS	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Dal Maxvill	WS	7	25	22	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	.000	.120	.000	.120	0	0	0	0
Bobby Tolan	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ray Washburn	WS	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Steve Carlton	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Wayne Granger	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Dick Hughes	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Larry Jaster	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Mel Nelson	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Dick Schofield	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Ron Willis	WS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals		85	262	239	27	61	7	3	7	27	11	5	21	40	.255	.318	.397	.715	95	3	1	1

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Orlando Cepeda	WS	1B	7	7	62.0	47	4	0	7	1.000	7.403	7.286
Julian Javier	WS	2B	7	7	62.0	15	13	0	4	1.000	4.065	4.000
Mike Shannon	WS	3B	7	7	62.0	5	10	1	1	.938	2.177	2.143
Tim McCarver	WS	C	7	7	62.0	61	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	8.857
Curt Flood	WS	CF	7	7	62.0	12	0	0	0	1.000	1.742	1.714
Lou Brock	WS	LF	7	7	62.0	14	0	1	0	.933	2.032	2.000
Bob Gibson	WS	P	3	3	27.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	.667	.667
Nelson Briles	WS	P	2	2	11.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.588	1.000
Ray Washburn	WS	P	2	2	7.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.227	.500
Joe Hoerner	WS	P	3	0	4.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Ron Willis	WS	P	3	0	4.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.077	.333
Steve Carlton	WS	P	2	0	4.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000
Wayne Granger	WS	P	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	1	1.000	4.500	1.000
Mel Nelson	WS	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Dick Hughes	WS	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Larry Jaster	WS	P	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000
Roger Maris	WS	RF	5	5	45.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	1.600	1.600
Ron Davis	WS	RF	2	2	17.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.647	2.500
Dal Maxvill	WS	SS	7	7	61.0	15	15	0	6	1.000	4.426	4.286
Dick Schofield	WS	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Totals			76	63	558.0	186	48	2	19	.992	3.774	3.079

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