1977 St. Louis Cardinals Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 83-79
Finished 3rd in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 1,659,287, Avg. 20,991
Ballpark: Busch Stadium II
Manager: Vern Rapp (83-79)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

1977 St. Louis Cardinals Roster
1977 St. Louis Cardinals Results

The St. Louis Cardinals of the National League ended the 1977 season with a record of 83 wins and 79 losses, finishing third in the NL's East Division.

The Cardinals plated 737 runs and conceded 688 runs. Ted Simmons paced St. Louis with 21 home runs, while Keith Hernandez and Ken Reitz walloped 20 or more as well. Ted Simmons drove in 95 runs. Garry Templeton topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .322 clip. Bob Forsch led the squad with 20 wins, and John Urrea recorded a 3.16 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Vern Rapp coached the team.

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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	BK	WP	BF
Bob Forsch	20	7	.741	3.48	35	35	0	8	2	0	217.3	210	97	84	20	69	2	95	3	1	9	915
Eric Rasmussen	11	17	.393	3.48	34	34	0	11	3	0	233.0	223	103	90	24	63	7	120	5	2	2	962
John Denny	8	8	.500	4.51	26	26	0	3	1	0	149.7	165	85	75	9	62	0	60	5	1	6	664
John Urrea	7	6	.538	3.16	41	12	15	2	1	4	139.7	126	56	49	13	35	3	81	0	1	5	560
Buddy Schultz	6	1	.857	2.32	40	3	6	0	0	1	85.3	76	26	22	5	24	0	66	0	0	1	343
Al Hrabosky	6	5	.545	4.38	65	0	39	0	0	10	86.3	82	44	42	12	41	7	68	3	0	4	374
Tom Underwood	6	9	.400	4.95	19	17	2	1	0	0	100.0	104	61	55	7	57	4	66	1	0	3	443
Clay Carroll	4	2	.667	2.50	51	1	16	0	0	4	90.0	77	28	25	8	24	8	34	1	1	0	357
Butch Metzger	4	2	.667	3.11	58	0	28	0	0	7	92.7	78	36	32	8	38	2	48	1	0	2	389
Pete Falcone	4	8	.333	5.44	27	22	3	1	1	1	124.0	130	79	75	19	61	3	75	3	1	4	553
Rawly Eastwick	3	7	.300	4.70	41	1	20	0	0	4	53.7	74	34	28	6	21	3	30	0	1	2	248
John Sutton	2	1	.667	2.59	14	0	5	0	0	0	24.3	28	10	7	1	9	1	9	0	0	1	101
Larry Dierker	2	6	.250	4.58	11	9	1	0	0	0	39.3	40	21	20	7	16	0	6	2	1	2	169
John D'Acquisto	0	0		4.32	3	2	1	0	0	0	8.3	5	4	4	0	10	0	9	1	0	2	39
Doug Capilla	0	0		15.43	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	2	4	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	11
Totals	83	79	.512	3.81	467	162	136	26	8	31	1446.0	1420	688	612	139	532	40	768	25	9	43	6128

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
Garry Templeton	153	644	621	94	200	19	18	8	79	28	24	15	70	.322	.336	.449	.786	279	9	1	2	5	3
Ted Simmons	150	601	516	82	164	25	3	21	95	2	6	79	37	.318	.408	.500	.908	258	20	2	0	4	25
Keith Hernandez	161	645	560	90	163	41	4	15	91	7	7	79	88	.291	.379	.459	.837	257	17	1	3	2	11
Ken Reitz	157	620	587	58	153	36	1	17	79	2	6	19	74	.261	.291	.412	.703	242	17	7	5	2	4
Jerry Mumphrey	145	512	463	73	133	20	10	2	38	22	15	47	70	.287	.354	.387	.741	179	4	1	1	0	6
Lou Brock	141	521	489	69	133	22	6	2	46	35	24	30	74	.272	.317	.354	.670	173	6	2	0	0	2
Mike Tyson	138	457	418	42	103	15	2	7	57	3	4	30	48	.246	.299	.342	.641	143	9	2	5	2	11
Tony Scott	95	331	292	38	85	16	3	3	41	13	10	33	48	.291	.368	.397	.765	116	5	3	2	1	4
Hector Cruz	118	391	339	50	80	19	2	6	42	4	3	46	56	.236	.326	.357	.683	121	8	1	2	3	1
Mike Anderson	94	169	154	18	34	4	1	4	17	2	3	14	31	.221	.286	.338	.623	52	3	0	1	0	0
Roger Freed	49	95	83	10	33	2	1	5	21	0	0	11	9	.398	.463	.627	1.090	52	2	0	0	1	0
Bake McBride	43	132	122	21	32	5	1	4	20	9	3	7	19	.262	.298	.418	.716	51	1	0	1	2	2
Don Kessinger	59	149	134	14	32	4	0	0	7	0	0	14	26	.239	.309	.269	.577	36	3	0	0	1	1
Dave Rader	66	129	114	15	30	7	1	1	16	1	0	9	10	.263	.310	.368	.678	42	0	0	3	3	0
Mike Phillips	48	97	87	17	21	3	2	0	9	1	0	9	13	.241	.320	.322	.641	28	1	1	0	0	1
Rick Bosetti	41	76	69	12	16	0	0	0	3	4	4	6	11	.232	.303	.232	.535	16	0	1	0	0	0
Bob Forsch	35	86	72	6	12	4	0	0	4	0	0	2	29	.167	.189	.222	.411	16	0	0	12	0	0
Dane Iorg	30	38	32	2	10	1	0	0	4	0	1	5	4	.313	.395	.344	.738	11	1	0	0	1	0
Pete Falcone	27	47	41	3	10	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	12	.244	.279	.293	.572	12	0	0	4	0	0
Eric Rasmussen	34	83	72	4	10	5	0	0	3	0	0	5	27	.139	.195	.208	.403	15	0	0	6	0	0
Jim Dwyer	13	37	31	3	7	1	0	0	2	0	0	4	5	.226	.351	.258	.609	8	0	2	0	0	0
Joel Youngblood	25	30	27	1	5	2	0	0	1	0	2	3	5	.185	.267	.259	.526	7	1	0	0	0	0
John Denny	26	58	51	4	5	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	15	.098	.132	.098	.230	5	1	1	5	0	0
Taylor Duncan	8	15	12	2	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	1	.333	.400	.583	.983	7	0	0	0	1	0
John Urrea	41	41	29	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	9	6	.138	.342	.138	.480	4	0	0	3	0	0
Tom Underwood	19	36	30	4	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	3	7	.133	.206	.167	.373	5	1	0	2	1	0
Rawly Eastwick	41	7	5	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	.400	.571	.400	.971	2	0	0	0	0	0
Buddy Schultz	41	16	12	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	.167	.286	.167	.452	2	0	0	2	0	0
Benny Ayala	1	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Oberkfell	9	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Clay Carroll	51	14	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	1	0	3	0	0
Al Hrabosky	65	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Dierker	11	10	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Butch Metzger	58	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	2	0	0
John Tamargo	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Sutton	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
John D'Acquisto	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry DaVanon	9	9	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Potter	5	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Capilla	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2230	6136	5527	737	1490	252	56	96	686	134	112	489	823	.270	.330	.388	.718	2142	111	25	66	29	71

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Keith Hernandez	1B	158	150	1345.0	1453	106	12	146	.992	1.432	9.867	0	0	0
Roger Freed	1B	18	12	101.0	102	7	0	13	1.000	9.713	6.056	0	0	0
Mike Tyson	2B	135	128	1097.0	267	423	15	99	.979	5.661	5.111	0	0	0
Mike Phillips	2B	31	16	166.0	42	57	3	15	.971	5.367	3.194	0	0	0
Don Kessinger	2B	24	16	151.0	32	63	5	9	.950	5.662	3.958	0	0	0
Jerry DaVanon	2B	5	1	19.0	4	8	1	0	.923	5.684	2.400	0	0	0
Ken Oberkfell	2B	6	1	13.0	3	4	0	1	1.000	4.846	1.167	0	0	0
Ken Reitz	3B	157	156	1359.3	121	320	9	35	.980	2.920	2.809	0	0	0
Mike Phillips	3B	5	2	26.0	4	6	1	0	.909	3.462	2.000	0	0	0
Taylor Duncan	3B	5	2	24.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	.750	.400	0	0	0
Joel Youngblood	3B	6	1	19.0	1	6	1	0	.875	3.316	1.167	0	0	0
Don Kessinger	3B	4	1	10.3	0	2	1	0	.667	1.742	.500	0	0	0
Hector Cruz	3B	2	0	3.3	0	1	1	1	.500	2.700	.500	0	0	0
Ted Simmons	C	143	139	1226.7	683	75	10	5	.987	5.561	5.301	8	97	54	35.8
Dave Rader	C	38	23	217.3	147	13	4	2	.976	6.626	4.211	2	20	8	28.6
John Tamargo	C	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Jerry Mumphrey	OF	133	107	1002.3	291	8	9	1	.971	2.685	2.248	0	0	0
Lou Brock	OF	130	121	902.0	184	2	9	1	.954	1.856	1.431	0	0	0
Hector Cruz	OF	106	89	784.3	154	9	6	1	.964	1.870	1.538	0	0	0
Tony Scott	OF	89	70	677.0	223	5	1	0	.996	3.031	2.562	0	0	0
Mike Anderson	OF	77	31	373.0	96	4	2	0	.980	2.413	1.299	0	0	0
Bake McBride	OF	33	29	220.0	48	2	0	0	1.000	2.045	1.515	0	0	0
Rick Bosetti	OF	35	14	171.3	42	3	0	0	1.000	2.364	1.286	0	0	0
Jim Dwyer	OF	12	9	79.0	16	0	0	0	1.000	1.823	1.333	0	0	0
Roger Freed	OF	6	7	41.7	5	0	1	0	.833	1.080	.833	0	0	0
Joel Youngblood	OF	11	4	41.3	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.524	.636	0	0	0
Dane Iorg	OF	7	3	29.0	7	0	1	0	.875	2.172	1.000	0	0	0
Benny Ayala	OF	1	1	8.0	6	1	0	1	1.000	7.875	7.000	0	0	0
Ted Simmons	OF	1	1	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mike Potter	OF	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Eric Rasmussen	P	34	34	233.0	8	30	1	4	.974	1.468	1.118	0	0	0
Bob Forsch	P	35	35	217.3	12	29	2	2	.953	1.698	1.171	0	0	0
John Denny	P	26	26	149.7	9	37	3	3	.939	2.766	1.769	0	0	0
John Urrea	P	41	12	139.7	7	24	2	2	.939	1.998	.756	0	0	0
Pete Falcone	P	27	22	124.0	4	15	0	1	1.000	1.379	.704	0	0	0
Tom Underwood	P	19	17	100.0	2	10	2	2	.857	1.080	.632	0	0	0
Butch Metzger	P	58	0	92.7	5	9	0	1	1.000	1.360	.241	0	0	0
Clay Carroll	P	51	0	90.0	6	19	1	3	.962	2.500	.490	0	0	0
Al Hrabosky	P	65	0	86.3	3	8	0	1	1.000	1.147	.169	0	0	0
Buddy Schultz	P	40	4	85.3	3	10	1	1	.929	1.371	.325	0	0	0
Rawly Eastwick	P	41	1	53.7	4	3	0	0	1.000	1.174	.171	0	0	0
Larry Dierker	P	11	9	39.3	2	5	0	0	1.000	1.602	.636	0	0	0
John Sutton	P	14	0	24.3	1	5	0	2	1.000	2.219	.429	0	0	0
John D'Acquisto	P	3	2	8.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Doug Capilla	P	2	0	2.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.857	.500	0	0	0
Garry Templeton	SS	151	146	1264.0	285	453	32	98	.958	5.255	4.887	0	0	0
Don Kessinger	SS	26	13	151.0	37	54	2	15	.978	5.424	3.500	0	0	0
Mike Phillips	SS	5	3	31.0	11	11	1	6	.957	6.387	4.400	0	0	0
Totals		2029	1458	13010.0	4338	1850	139	471	.978	4.281	3.050	10	117	62	34.6

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