Holliday Enters New Top 10 On-Base List

Many St. Louis Cardinals fans – at least those watching the game telecast Wednesday evening – are aware that left fielder Matt Holliday set a new Cardinals and National League record for consecutive games reaching base at the start of the season at 43.

Now that Holliday, 35, has passed Albert Pujols on that list, it is time to check where he stands on the team’s all-time consecutive games on-base leaders – at any time, not just to begin a season.

Thanks to researcher Tom Orf, we are reminded that Holliday also reached base in the final two regular season contests in 2014. That makes his current total of 45 games, tied for 10th all-time among Cardinals.

Stan Musial is on top at 55, a mark set in 1943 when Stan the Man was just 22 years of age. The man Holliday tied on Wednesday, Keith Hernandez, is the only player listed in the team’s top 10 twice.

St. Louis Cardinals, consecutive games on base, team history

Rk Name Strk Start End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS
1 Stan Musial 08,08,43 10,01,43 55 215 40 82 19 6 7 30 9 27 3 0 0.381 0.450 0.623 1.074
2 Ray Blades 05,28,25 08,13,25 54 214 57 78 21 6 8 30 17 33 3 2 0.364 0.456 0.631 1.087
3 Vince Coleman 04,23,87 06,21,87 50 209 45 67 2 5 0 17 42 27 34 9 0.321 0.403 0.378 0.781
T4 Albert Pujols 07,28,01 09,22,01 48 183 46 69 22 1 12 52 27 22 1 1 0.377 0.447 0.705 1.152
T4 Solly Hemus 05,12,53 06,27,53 48 199 37 64 10 5 7 27 16 27 0 1 0.322 0.413 0.528 0.941
T4 Ray Sanders 07,18,44 09,03,44 48 186 35 68 12 5 4 45 12 31 0 1 0.366 0.459 0.548 1.007
T7 Jim Edmonds 06,30,04 08,25,04 47 150 41 53 9 2 18 41 46 39 2 2 0.353 0.490 0.800 1.290
T7 Keith Hernandez 08,06,82 09,26,82 47 164 25 60 12 4 1 28 20 37 3 5 0.366 0.476 0.506 0.982
9 Ken Boyer 07,26,59 09,12,59 46 178 22 63 5 2 10 30 28 16 2 4 0.354 0.405 0.573 0.978
T10 Keith Hernandez 09,08,80 05,05,81 45 170 30 58 15 2 5 26 26 31 3 2 0.341 0.443 0.541 0.984
T10 Matt Holliday 09,26,14 05,27,15 45 153 18 48 10 0 3 24 32 30 2 1 0.314 0.434 0.438 0.872

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