St. Louis Cardinals 1979

86–76record

.531win pct

731runs

693allowed

+38run diff

100home runs

37players

The three rarest things in 1979

Rarity	What	Who	Date	Rate	Game
80	Walk-Off Passed Ball	St. Louis Cardinals	1979-06-05	1 in 4,340 games	box score ↗
66	Three Intentional Walks	Ted Simmons	1979-09-04	1 in 1,129 games	box score ↗
66	Three Hits, Three Strikeouts	Lou Brock	1979-04-18	1 in 1,070 games	box score ↗

Batting (37)

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

Pitching (16)

Player	G	W–L	GS	CG	SV	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP
Pete Vuckovich	34	15–10	32	9	0	229	108	93	64	145	22	233.0	3.59	1.26
Bob Forsch	33	11–11	32	7	0	215	102	93	52	92	16	218.2	3.83	1.22
Silvio Martinez	32	15–8	29	7	0	204	92	75	67	102	14	206.2	3.27	1.31
John Denny	31	8–11	31	5	0	206	116	111	100	99	24	206.0	4.85	1.49
John Fulgham	20	10–6	19	10	0	123	47	41	26	75	10	146.0	2.53	1.02
Mark Littell	63	9–4	0	0	13	60	22	20	39	67	2	82.1	2.19	1.20
Roy Thomas	26	3–4	6	0	1	66	29	25	24	44	9	77.0	2.92	1.17
Bob Sykes	13	4–3	11	0	0	86	49	46	34	35	11	67.0	6.18	1.79
Will McEnaney	45	0–3	0	0	2	60	26	21	16	15	3	64.0	2.95	1.19
Darold Knowles	48	2–5	0	0	6	54	27	22	17	22	5	48.2	4.07	1.46
Buddy Schultz	31	4–3	0	0	3	40	21	21	14	38	7	42.1	4.46	1.28
Tom Bruno	27	2–3	1	0	0	37	18	18	22	27	1	38.1	4.23	1.54
George Frazier	25	2–4	0	0	0	35	19	16	12	14	3	32.1	4.45	1.45
John Urrea	3	0–0	2	0	0	13	7	5	9	5	0	11.1	3.97	1.94
Dan O'Brien	6	1–1	0	0	0	21	10	10	3	5	0	11.0	8.18	2.18
Kim Seaman	1	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	2.0	0.00	1.00