1979 St. Louis Cardinals Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 86-76
Finished 3rd in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 1,627,256, Avg. 21,148
Ballpark: Busch Stadium II
Manager: Ken Boyer (86-76)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

1979 St. Louis Cardinals Roster
1979 St. Louis Cardinals Results

The St. Louis Cardinals of the National League ended the 1979 season with a record of 86 wins and 76 losses, finishing third in the NL's East Division.

The Cardinals scored 731 runs and surrendered 693 runs. Ted Simmons led St. Louis with 26 home runs, and George Hendrick walloped 20 or more also. Keith Hernandez accounted for 105 RBI and topped all regular batters by connecting at a .344 clip. Pete Vuckovich and Silvio Martinez paced the team with 15 wins each, while John Fulgham recorded a 2.53 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Ken Boyer 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
Silvio Martinez	15	8	.652	3.27	32	29	2	7	2	0	206.7	204	92	75	14	67	2	102	0	2	3	867
Pete Vuckovich	15	10	.600	3.59	34	32	0	9	0	0	233.0	229	108	93	22	64	4	145	3	3	7	968
Bob Forsch	11	11	.500	3.83	33	32	0	7	1	0	218.7	215	102	93	16	52	1	92	3	0	6	894
John Fulgham	10	6	.625	2.53	20	19	0	10	2	0	146.0	123	47	41	10	26	3	75	3	1	2	576
Mark Littell	9	4	.692	2.19	63	0	40	0	0	13	82.3	60	22	20	2	39	5	67	0	0	7	342
John Denny	8	11	.421	4.85	31	31	0	5	2	0	206.0	206	116	111	24	100	7	99	3	1	6	900
Buddy Schultz	4	3	.571	4.46	31	0	12	0	0	3	42.3	40	21	21	7	14	5	38	0	0	2	178
Bob Sykes	4	3	.571	6.18	13	11	1	0	0	0	67.0	86	49	46	11	34	2	35	1	1	4	310
Roy Thomas	3	4	.429	2.92	26	6	4	0	0	1	77.0	66	29	25	9	24	3	44	0	0	3	308
Tom Bruno	2	3	.400	4.23	27	1	8	0	0	0	38.3	37	18	18	1	22	5	27	2	0	2	174
George Frazier	2	4	.333	4.45	25	0	14	0	0	0	32.3	35	19	16	3	12	2	14	1	0	0	143
Darold Knowles	2	5	.286	4.07	48	0	18	0	0	6	48.7	54	27	22	5	17	7	22	0	1	2	214
Dan O'Brien	1	1	.500	8.18	6	0	4	0	0	0	11.0	21	10	10	0	3	0	5	0	0	0	55
Kim Seaman	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	8
John Urrea	0	0		3.97	3	2	0	0	0	0	11.3	13	7	5	0	9	0	5	0	0	1	51
Will McEnaney	0	3	.000	2.95	45	0	21	0	0	2	64.0	60	26	21	3	16	8	15	2	1	0	267
Totals	86	76	.531	3.74	438	163	125	38	7	25	1486.7	1449	693	617	127	501	54	788	18	10	45	6255

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	154	696	672	105	211	32	19	9	62	26	10	18	91	.314	.331	.458	.790	308	8	1	2	3	4
Keith Hernandez	161	698	610	116	210	48	11	11	105	11	6	80	78	.344	.417	.513	.930	313	9	1	0	7	5
Ken Reitz	159	643	605	42	162	41	2	8	73	1	0	25	85	.268	.299	.382	.681	231	13	4	4	5	7
Tony Scott	153	634	587	69	152	22	10	6	68	37	17	34	92	.259	.301	.361	.662	212	13	5	0	8	4
George Hendrick	140	548	493	67	148	27	1	16	75	2	3	49	62	.300	.359	.456	.816	225	17	0	0	6	5
Ted Simmons	123	521	448	68	127	22	0	26	87	0	1	61	34	.283	.369	.507	.875	227	10	4	0	8	22
Lou Brock	120	436	405	56	123	15	4	5	38	21	12	23	43	.304	.342	.398	.739	161	7	3	0	5	1
Ken Oberkfell	135	435	369	53	111	19	5	1	35	4	1	57	35	.301	.396	.388	.784	143	9	4	1	4	9
Jerry Mumphrey	124	375	339	53	100	10	3	3	32	8	11	26	39	.295	.341	.369	.710	125	6	0	6	4	2
Dane Iorg	79	195	179	12	52	11	1	1	21	1	2	12	28	.291	.337	.380	.717	68	5	1	2	1	1
Mike Tyson	75	207	190	18	42	8	2	5	20	2	1	13	28	.221	.272	.363	.635	69	5	1	1	2	6
Terry Kennedy	33	116	109	11	31	7	0	2	17	0	0	6	20	.284	.319	.404	.723	44	2	0	0	1	2
Mike Phillips	44	109	97	10	22	3	1	1	6	0	0	10	9	.227	.306	.309	.615	30	5	1	1	0	0
Bernie Carbo	52	76	64	6	18	1	0	3	12	1	0	10	22	.281	.368	.438	.806	28	0	0	0	2	0
Pete Vuckovich	34	90	79	7	12	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	14	.152	.159	.152	.310	12	2	0	8	2	0
Steve Swisher	38	80	73	4	11	1	1	1	3	0	0	6	17	.151	.213	.233	.445	17	2	0	0	1	0
Jim Lentine	11	26	23	2	9	1	0	0	1	0	1	3	6	.391	.462	.435	.896	10	0	0	0	0	0
John Denny	31	80	70	5	9	2	1	0	3	1	2	1	21	.129	.139	.186	.325	13	0	0	8	1	0
Roger Freed	34	36	31	2	8	2	0	2	8	0	0	5	7	.258	.361	.516	.877	16	1	0	0	0	0
Silvio Martinez	33	74	62	5	8	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	26	.129	.141	.145	.286	9	0	0	10	1	0
Bob Forsch	33	84	73	7	8	2	2	0	5	0	0	5	17	.110	.163	.192	.354	14	1	0	4	2	0
John Fulgham	22	59	42	3	6	2	0	0	4	0	0	6	21	.143	.250	.190	.440	8	0	0	11	0	0
Keith Smith	6	13	13	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.231	.231	.231	.462	3	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Grieve	9	19	15	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	.200	.368	.267	.635	4	0	0	0	0	1
Tom Herr	14	12	10	4	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	2	.200	.333	.200	.533	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Sykes	13	26	21	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	11	.095	.208	.095	.304	2	0	2	2	0	0
Mike Dimmel	6	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
John Urrea	3	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Bruno	27	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	1	0	0
Roy Thomas	26	18	17	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	.059	.059	.118	.176	2	0	0	1	0	0
Mark Littell	63	16	14	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	11	.000	.067	.000	.067	0	0	0	1	0	0
Buddy Schultz	31	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
George Frazier	25	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan O'Brien	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Will McEnaney	45	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Darold Knowles	48	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Kim Seaman	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2111	6347	5734	731	1594	279	63	100	685	116	69	460	838	.278	.331	.401	.732	2299	116	27	63	63	69

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Keith Hernandez	1B	160	156	1413.0	1489	146	8	145	.995	1.414	1.219	0	0	0
Dane Iorg	1B	10	6	65.7	70	5	0	2	1.000	1.279	7.500	0	0	0
Roger Freed	1B	1	1	8.0	7	1	1	0	.889	9.000	8.000	0	0	0
Ken Oberkfell	2B	117	96	873.3	213	323	8	65	.985	5.524	4.581	0	0	0
Mike Tyson	2B	71	57	495.7	125	184	8	42	.975	5.611	4.352	0	0	0
Mike Phillips	2B	16	7	88.3	21	30	1	5	.981	5.196	3.188	0	0	0
Tom Herr	2B	6	3	29.3	12	11	0	3	1.000	7.057	3.833	0	0	0
Ken Reitz	3B	158	156	1400.3	124	290	12	26	.972	2.661	2.620	0	0	0
Ken Oberkfell	3B	17	7	84.3	10	19	1	2	.967	3.095	1.706	0	0	0
Mike Phillips	3B	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Ted Simmons	C	122	118	1052.3	606	69	10	10	.985	5.773	5.533	14	98	40	29.0
Terry Kennedy	C	32	26	238.3	135	7	1	1	.993	5.362	4.438	2	24	7	22.6
Steve Swisher	C	33	19	196.0	105	6	3	2	.974	5.097	3.364	0	12	5	29.4
Tony Scott	OF	151	147	1327.7	427	14	7	5	.984	2.989	2.921	0	0	0
George Hendrick	OF	138	127	1147.7	254	20	2	7	.993	2.149	1.986	0	0	0
Lou Brock	OF	98	95	766.3	152	7	7	2	.958	1.867	1.622	0	0	0
Jerry Mumphrey	OF	114	71	753.3	180	3	3	0	.984	2.186	1.605	0	0	0
Dane Iorg	OF	39	30	267.0	51	2	2	0	.964	1.787	1.359	0	0	0
Bernie Carbo	OF	17	7	74.7	10	0	0	0	1.000	1.205	.588	0	0	0
Jim Lentine	OF	8	4	48.3	12	1	0	1	1.000	2.421	1.625	0	0	0
Tom Grieve	OF	5	5	33.0	7	0	1	0	.875	1.909	1.400	0	0	0
Keith Smith	OF	5	3	30.0	14	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	3.000	0	0	0
Mike Dimmel	OF	5	0	12.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	.600	0	0	0
Pete Vuckovich	P	34	32	233.0	14	28	5	2	.894	1.622	1.235	0	0	0
Bob Forsch	P	33	32	218.7	25	31	1	3	.982	2.305	1.697	0	0	0
Silvio Martinez	P	32	29	206.7	17	15	4	3	.889	1.394	1.000	0	0	0
John Denny	P	31	31	206.0	16	36	2	4	.963	2.272	1.677	0	0	0
John Fulgham	P	20	19	146.0	7	12	2	1	.905	1.171	.950	0	0	0
Mark Littell	P	63	0	82.3	6	7	1	1	.929	1.421	.206	0	0	0
Roy Thomas	P	26	6	77.0	10	13	0	1	1.000	2.688	.885	0	0	0
Bob Sykes	P	13	11	67.0	0	7	0	0	1.000	.940	.538	0	0	0
Will McEnaney	P	45	0	64.0	2	19	0	2	1.000	2.953	.467	0	0	0
Darold Knowles	P	48	0	48.7	2	7	4	0	.692	1.664	.188	0	0	0
Buddy Schultz	P	31	0	42.3	1	5	0	0	1.000	1.276	.194	0	0	0
Tom Bruno	P	27	1	38.3	2	5	0	0	1.000	1.643	.259	0	0	0
George Frazier	P	25	0	32.3	4	4	1	0	.889	2.227	.320	0	0	0
John Urrea	P	3	2	11.3	2	1	0	0	1.000	2.382	1.000	0	0	0
Dan O'Brien	P	6	0	11.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Kim Seaman	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Garry Templeton	SS	150	150	1314.7	292	525	34	102	.960	5.593	5.447	0	0	0
Mike Phillips	SS	25	13	170.0	33	76	3	11	.973	5.771	4.360	0	0	0
Ken Oberkfell	SS	2	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
Totals		1939	1467	13380.0	4460	1932	132	448	.980	4.300	3.297	16	134	52	28.0

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