| 词条 | 1997 St. Louis Cardinals season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = St. Louis Cardinals | season = 1997 | misc = | logo = St Louis Cardinals 1967-1997 logo.png | current league = National League | y1 = 1892 | division = Central Division | y2 = 1994 | Uniform logo = | ballpark = Busch Memorial Stadium | y4 = 1966 | city = St. Louis, Missouri | y5 = 1882 | record = 73–89 (.451) | divisional place = 4th | owners = William DeWitt, Jr. | general managers = Walt Jocketty | managers = Tony La Russa | television = Fox Sports Midwest KPLR (Al Hrabosky, Bob Carpenter, Joe Buck, Bob Ramsey, Ozzie Smith, Rich Gould) | radio = KMOX (Jack Buck, Mike Shannon, Joe Buck) }} The St. Louis Cardinals 1997 season was the team's 116th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 106th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 73-89 during the season and finished 4th in the National League Central division, eleven games behind the Houston Astros. Offseason
Regular seasonSeason standings{{1997 NL Central standings|highlight=St. Louis Cardinals}}Record vs. opponents{{1997 NL Record vs. opponents|team=STL}}Roster
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The TradeThe beginning came on July 31, when the Cardinals acquired Mark McGwire from the Oakland Athletics in exchange for relief pitcher T.J. Mathews and minor league pitchers Eric Ludwick and Blake Stein. McGwire could have been a free agent at the end of the season. McGwire had 34 home runs and 81 RBIs with Oakland at the time of the trade, which reunited him with former Athletics manager Tony La Russa. The Cardinals were considered to have little chance of keeping him with the club beyond the final two months of the season. But general manager Walt Jocketty's deal figured to inject some excitement into a dull close to the season, since the Cardinals were far out of the race. They had begun their free fall in early July when left fielder Ron Gant had failed to make a routine catch which would have given the Cardinals a victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Not only did the Pirates rally for that victory, but they also ended up sweeping the four-game series, knocking the Cardinals out of first place, and sending them reeling. McGwire hadn't expected to stay with Oakland, but he also didn't think he would end up with the Cardinals. McGwire's ImpactThe team was in the throes of a slump when their new first baseman arrived. On August 10, the Cardinals had lost 11 of their last 14 games. They had scored a total of 58 runs scored in their 21 previous games at that point. McGwire struggled to hit anything at first but had four home runs with his new team in less than two weeks, including two in an August 13 game that featured a 455-foot dinger, one of the longest in Busch Stadium history. September BoomsOn September 3, the same day pitcher Alan Benes underwent rotate cuff surgery, McGwire hit the first Busch Stadium home run that was measured at more than 500 feet-504 feet, to be exact-hit on a pitch from Jaime Navarro of the Chicago White Sox. A week later, he hit his 16th homer since joining the Cardinals but his 50th overall for the season, making him only the second man in baseball history-Babe Ruth did it twice-to reach the 50-homer mark in successive seasons McGwire's biggest blasts might have come on September 17. That afternoon, the Cardinals announced they had signed him to a three-year, $28.5 million contract with an option for a fourth season at $11 million. He announced at the news conference that part of the deal included the formation of a charitable foundation to fight sexual and physical abuse of children, a fight strengthened by his donation of $1 million a year. McGwire choked up and wiped away tears as he talked of that cause, something close to his heart because of a close friend who had suffered such abuse. He had decided to stay in St. Louis, McGwire said, because of the overwhelming affection shown him by Cardinals fans. Never did he feel it so much as when he stepped to the plate for his first at bat after signing his contract that day. With Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Ramón Hernández on the mound at Busch, the crowd of 27,157 fans stood for a standing ovation at the announcement of McGwire's name. No one stopped cheering as Martinez threw ball one, then ball two,strike one and ball three. They all remained on their feet and screaming as Martinez fired the fifth pitch of the at bat, which McGwire hit 517 feet for the then-longest home run in stadium history, an upper-deck shot over the left-field scoreboard. it was McGwire's fifth homer of more than 500 feet in that one season and his 18th homer since joining the Cardinals only 48 days earlier. With two homers on the second-to-last day of the season and one more in the season finale. McGwire ended with 24 homers in the Cardinals uniform and 58 overall for the season. That was a single-season for a right-handed batter and fueled a winter of speculation that he might be the chosen one to break Roger Maris's hallowed record. Player statsBattingStarters by positionNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In
Other battersNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In
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Farm system{{See also|Minor League Baseball}}{{MLB Farm System|level15=AAA|team15=Louisville Redbirds|league15=American Association|manager15=Gaylen Pitts|level16=AA |team16=Arkansas Travelers|league16=Texas League|manager16=Rick Mahler |level17=A |team17=Prince William Cannons|league17=Carolina League|manager17=Roy Silver |level18=A |team18=Peoria Chiefs|league18=Midwest League|manager18=Joe Cunningham, Jr. |level19=A-Short Season|team19=New Jersey Cardinals|league19=New York–Penn League|manager19=Jeff Shireman |level20=Rookie|team20=Johnson City Cardinals|league20=Appalachian League|manager20=Steve Turco }}[9] External links
References1. ^[https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mcgeewi01.shtml Willie McGee] at Baseball-Reference {{St. Louis Cardinals}}{{1997 MLB season by team}}{{DEFAULTSORT:1997 St. Louis Cardinals Season}}2. ^https://www.baseball-reference.com/p/pagnoto01.shtml 3. ^[https://www.baseball-reference.com/a/ankieri01.shtml Rick Ankiel] at Baseball-Reference 4. ^[https://www.baseball-reference.com/n/nadyxa01.shtml Xavier Nady] at Baseball-Reference 5. ^[https://www.baseball-reference.com/r/rodrijo04.shtml José Rodríguez] at Baseball-Reference 6. ^[https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sweenma01.shtml Mark Sweeney] at Baseball-Reference 7. ^[https://www.baseball-reference.com/g/gallemi01.shtml Mike Gallego] at Baseball-Reference 8. ^Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p.372, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, {{ISBN|978-0-451-22363-0}} 9. ^Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007 3 : St. Louis Cardinals seasons|1997 Major League Baseball season|1997 in sports in Missouri |
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