1981 St. Louis Cardinals Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 59-43
Finished 1st in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 1,010,247, Avg. 19,061
Ballpark: Busch Stadium II
Manager: Whitey Herzog (59-43)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

1981 St. Louis Cardinals Roster
1981 St. Louis Cardinals Results

The St. Louis Cardinals of the National League ended the 1981 season with a record of 59 wins and 43 losses, finishing first in the NL's East Division.

The Cardinals scored 464 runs and conceded 417 runs. George Hendrick led St. Louis with 18 home runs and accounted for 61 RBI. Keith Hernandez paced all regular hitters by connecting at a .306 clip. Bob Forsch topped the squad with 10 wins, while Bruce Sutter recorded a 2.62 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Whitey Herzog 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	10	5	.667	3.18	20	20	0	1	0	0	124.3	106	47	44	7	29	3	41	4	1	3	501
John Martin	8	5	.615	3.42	17	15	0	4	0	0	102.7	85	43	39	10	26	0	36	2	1	0	407
Lary Sorensen	7	7	.500	3.27	23	23	0	3	1	0	140.3	149	59	51	3	26	2	52	1	5	1	579
Joaquin Andujar	6	1	.857	3.74	11	8	0	1	0	0	55.3	56	24	23	4	11	1	19	0	1	2	223
Bob Shirley	6	4	.600	4.08	28	11	5	1	0	1	79.3	78	42	36	6	34	3	36	1	0	1	342
Jim Kaat	6	6	.500	3.40	41	1	16	0	0	4	53.0	60	25	20	2	17	8	8	0	0	2	229
Andy Rincon	3	1	.750	1.77	5	5	0	1	1	0	35.7	27	8	7	0	5	1	13	2	1	1	133
Bruce Sutter	3	5	.375	2.62	48	0	36	0	0	25	82.3	64	24	24	5	24	8	57	1	1	0	328
Doug Bair	2	0	1.000	3.45	11	0	8	0	0	1	15.7	13	6	6	0	2	0	14	0	0	0	60
Bob Sykes	2	0	1.000	4.58	22	1	7	0	0	0	37.3	37	20	19	2	18	1	14	1	0	3	160
Silvio Martinez	2	5	.286	3.99	18	16	0	0	0	0	97.0	95	48	43	4	39	3	34	1	0	2	413
Dave LaPoint	1	0	1.000	4.22	3	2	0	0	0	0	10.7	12	5	5	1	2	0	4	1	0	0	45
Jim Otten	1	0	1.000	5.30	24	0	10	0	0	0	35.7	44	23	21	3	20	5	20	0	0	4	160
Joe Edelen	1	0	1.000	9.35	13	0	4	0	0	0	17.3	29	18	18	2	3	1	10	1	1	1	85
Mark Littell	1	3	.250	4.39	28	1	4	0	0	2	41.0	36	21	20	2	31	7	22	0	0	2	186
Luis DeLeon	0	1	.000	2.35	10	0	2	0	0	0	15.3	11	4	4	1	3	2	8	0	0	0	59
Totals	59	43	.578	3.63	322	103	92	11	2	33	943.0	902	417	380	52	290	45	388	15	11	22	3910

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
Keith Hernandez	103	444	376	65	115	27	4	8	48	12	5	61	45	.306	.401	.463	.864	174	9	2	0	5	6
George Hendrick	101	441	394	67	112	19	3	18	61	4	2	41	44	.284	.356	.485	.841	191	10	4	0	2	7
Ken Oberkfell	102	420	376	43	110	12	6	2	45	13	5	37	28	.293	.353	.372	.725	140	11	0	3	4	6
Tom Herr	103	462	411	50	110	14	9	0	46	23	7	39	30	.268	.329	.345	.674	142	9	1	6	5	3
Garry Templeton	80	350	333	47	96	16	8	1	33	8	12	14	55	.288	.315	.393	.709	131	4	0	1	2	3
Dane Iorg	75	227	217	23	71	11	2	2	39	2	0	7	9	.327	.344	.424	.768	92	7	0	0	3	0
Sixto Lezcano	72	258	214	26	57	8	2	5	28	0	1	40	40	.266	.376	.393	.768	84	8	0	0	4	2
Tony Scott	45	184	176	21	40	5	2	2	17	10	7	5	22	.227	.253	.313	.565	55	3	1	2	0	0
Darrell Porter	61	217	174	22	39	10	2	6	31	1	2	39	32	.224	.364	.408	.772	71	3	1	0	3	7
Mike Ramsey	47	133	124	19	32	3	0	0	9	4	0	8	16	.258	.303	.282	.585	35	6	0	1	0	1
Tito Landrum	81	133	119	13	31	5	4	0	10	4	2	6	14	.261	.297	.370	.667	44	2	1	5	2	0
Gene Tenace	58	174	129	26	30	7	0	5	22	0	0	38	26	.233	.416	.403	.819	52	1	4	1	2	2
Gene Roof	23	73	60	11	18	6	0	0	3	5	1	12	16	.300	.411	.400	.811	24	1	0	0	1	2
Orlando Sanchez	27	52	49	5	14	2	1	0	6	1	0	2	6	.286	.308	.367	.675	18	2	0	0	1	1
Steve Braun	44	62	46	9	9	2	1	0	2	1	0	15	7	.196	.393	.283	.676	13	1	0	1	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	20	24	22	2	7	1	0	1	3	0	0	1	3	.318	.348	.500	.848	11	2	0	1	0	0
John Martin	18	42	33	2	7	2	1	0	8	0	0	2	14	.212	.257	.333	.590	11	0	0	7	0	0
Silvio Martinez	18	37	35	1	7	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	12	.200	.222	.257	.479	9	0	0	1	0	0
Glenn Brummer	21	33	30	2	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	.200	.219	.233	.452	7	1	0	1	1	0
David Green	21	40	34	6	5	1	0	0	2	0	1	6	5	.147	.275	.176	.451	6	0	0	0	0	1
Bob Forsch	20	48	41	0	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	10	.122	.143	.146	.289	6	2	0	6	0	0
Jim Kaat	41	9	8	2	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	.375	.444	.500	.944	4	0	0	0	0	0
Andy Rincon	5	16	13	1	3	1	0	0	5	0	0	1	6	.231	.286	.308	.593	4	0	0	2	0	0
Bob Shirley	28	23	22	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	.136	.136	.136	.273	3	0	0	1	0	0
Lary Sorensen	23	52	46	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	.065	.085	.087	.172	4	0	1	5	0	0
Mark Littell	28	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Edelen	13	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bruce Sutter	48	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	1	0	0	0
Bob Sykes	22	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Bair	11	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Luis DeLeon	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Otten	24	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Neil Fiala	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave LaPoint	3	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joaquin Andujar	12	20	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1411	4013	3537	464	936	158	45	50	431	88	45	379	495	.265	.336	.377	.713	1334	82	16	46	35	41

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Keith Hernandez	1B	98	97	873.7	1054	86	3	99	.997	11.744	11.633	0	0	0
Dane Iorg	1B	8	3	38.0	47	5	0	1	1.000	12.316	6.500	0	0	0
Gene Tenace	1B	7	3	31.3	39	4	0	3	1.000	12.351	6.143	0	0	0
Tom Herr	2B	103	103	925.0	211	374	5	74	.992	5.692	5.680	0	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	2B	4	0	15.0	3	5	1	0	.889	4.800	2.000	0	0	0
Mike Ramsey	2B	1	0	3.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	12.000	4.000	0	0	0
Ken Oberkfell	3B	102	101	906.3	77	246	15	23	.956	3.207	3.167	0	0	0
Mike Ramsey	3B	5	2	23.7	2	6	0	1	1.000	3.042	1.600	0	0	0
Steve Braun	3B	1	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dane Iorg	3B	2	0	4.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	3B	2	0	4.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Darrell Porter	C	52	51	441.0	206	31	5	2	.979	4.837	4.558	2	39	22	36.1
Gene Tenace	C	38	36	316.3	126	18	3	1	.980	4.097	3.789	2	32	12	27.3
Orlando Sanchez	C	18	9	97.3	50	0	4	1	.926	4.623	2.778	1	13	2	13.3
Glenn Brummer	C	19	7	88.3	43	3	0	1	1.000	4.687	2.421	0	10	4	28.6
George Hendrick	OF	101	101	905.7	227	6	4	0	.983	2.315	2.307	0	0	0
Sixto Lezcano	OF	65	61	543.7	103	5	3	1	.973	1.788	1.662	0	0	0
Dane Iorg	OF	57	53	396.7	78	0	3	0	.963	1.770	1.368	0	0	0
Tony Scott	OF	44	41	374.3	120	2	0	0	1.000	2.933	2.773	0	0	0
Tito Landrum	OF	67	21	304.7	72	6	0	1	1.000	2.304	1.164	0	0	0
Gene Roof	OF	20	15	144.7	38	0	2	0	.950	2.364	1.900	0	0	0
David Green	OF	18	9	94.3	31	1	1	0	.970	3.053	1.778	0	0	0
Steve Braun	OF	12	6	55.0	15	2	0	1	1.000	2.782	1.417	0	0	0
Keith Hernandez	OF	3	2	9.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	.667	0	0	0
Mike Ramsey	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Lary Sorensen	P	23	23	140.3	15	21	2	3	.947	2.309	1.565	0	0	0
Bob Forsch	P	20	20	124.3	14	20	0	1	1.000	2.461	1.700	0	0	0
John Martin	P	17	15	102.7	3	20	0	0	1.000	2.016	1.353	0	0	0
Silvio Martinez	P	18	16	97.0	6	13	1	0	.950	1.763	1.056	0	0	0
Bruce Sutter	P	48	0	82.3	7	8	0	0	1.000	1.640	.313	0	0	0
Bob Shirley	P	28	11	79.3	1	10	0	0	1.000	1.248	.393	0	0	0
Joaquin Andujar	P	11	8	55.3	4	11	1	0	.938	2.440	1.364	0	0	0
Jim Kaat	P	41	1	53.0	4	13	2	1	.895	2.887	.415	0	0	0
Mark Littell	P	28	1	41.0	5	4	2	0	.818	1.976	.321	0	0	0
Bob Sykes	P	22	1	37.3	4	8	0	1	1.000	2.893	.545	0	0	0
Andy Rincon	P	5	5	35.7	2	5	0	0	1.000	1.766	1.400	0	0	0
Jim Otten	P	24	0	35.7	0	3	1	0	.750	.757	.125	0	0	0
Joe Edelen	P	13	0	17.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.558	.231	0	0	0
Doug Bair	P	11	0	15.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.149	.182	0	0	0
Luis DeLeon	P	10	0	15.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.174	.200	0	0	0
Dave LaPoint	P	3	2	10.7	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.531	1.000	0	0	0
Garry Templeton	SS	76	76	657.7	160	272	18	54	.960	5.912	5.684	0	0	0
Mike Ramsey	SS	35	27	271.3	52	118	6	20	.966	5.639	4.857	0	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	SS	5	0	13.0	3	7	0	1	1.000	6.923	2.000	0	0	0
Ken Oberkfell	SS	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1287	927	8487.0	2829	1347	82	290	.981	4.428	3.245	5	94	40	29.9

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