Cleveland Guardians vs St. Louis Cardinals All-Time Record

Interleague
Cleveland Guardians
St. Louis Cardinals
Guardians lead Cardinals24to21since 1997

Retrosheet history through 2025, plus 3 final games from the current feed.

2026 season series: Cardinals lead 2-1

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At a glance

All-time since 1997 · current-feed analysis, 2002 to 2026

Cleveland Guardians vs St. Louis Cardinals insights

Current-feed record
+2wins for Cardinals
53% Cardinals · 47% Guardians

Cardinals have pulled further ahead since 2023: 8-4.

Recent form
9-11last 20
Cardinals on a 2-game streak

Cardinals won 5-3 on Apr 15, 2026

Where it matters
0Postseason games

No postseason meetings since 2002.

Schedule context
  • Cardinals built the series lead before the 2023 schedule change, taking 10 of 22 decided meetings (45%).
  • Since the schedule balanced out they are 8-4, or 67% to Cardinals.

Guardians vs Cardinals complete all-time series record

Cleveland Guardians and St. Louis Cardinals have met 45 times since 1997, never in the postseason. 11 meetings predate the current feed, which adds game-level detail from 2002.

History span
1997 to 2026
First and latest meeting
Before 2002
11
Meetings from the Retrosheet game logs
Since 2002
34
Meetings with game-level detail below
Win Percentage
16W
18W
CLE
STL
47%53%
Cleveland GuardiansSt. Louis Cardinals

Recent Games

Last 10 Games
Apr 15
STL 5-3 CLE
STL
Apr 14
STL 6-5 CLE
STL
Apr 13
STL 3-9 CLE
CLE
Jun 29
CLE 0-7 STL
STL
Jun 28
CLE 6-9 STL
STL
Jun 27
CLE 0-5 STL
STL
Sep 22
STL 2-1 CLE
STL
Sep 21
STL 6-5 CLE
STL
Sep 20
STL 1-5 CLE
CLE
May 28
CLE 4-3 STL
CLE
Last Meeting
Apr 15, 2026Final
STL
5
HOME
CLE
3
AWAY
Cardinalswon by2runs
Cardinals' 2nd straight in this series·Game 34 since 2002
Streaks & Momentum
Current Streak
St. Louis Cardinals: 2 consecutive wins
2
Avg. Margin of Victory
Games decided by 3.7 runs on average
3.7runs
Momentum (Last 10 vs Archive since 2002)
CLE↓Trending Down
Last 1030%
Archive since 200247.1%
STL↑Trending Up
Last 1070%
Archive since 200252.9%
Last 10 Results
CLE / STL

Record since 2002

Season Split & Biggest Wins
Regular season vs Postseason record, plus each team's largest margin of victory
Regular Season34 games
16
18
No postseason meetings appear since 2002.
Cleveland Guardians Biggest Win
14–2+12 runs
Aug 28, 2020
St. Louis Cardinals Biggest Win
11–2+9 runs
Jun 26, 2018
Decade Breakdown
Choose a decade to scope the current-feed page
Season by Season
Season ↓CLE ↕STL ↕Games ↕
2026123
2025033
2024123
2023213
2021224
2020213
2018123
2015123
2012213
2009213
2006213

All 11 seasons are shown in the table above.

Home / Away Split
6-8CLE HOME10-10STL HOME
AWAY
10-10
CLE
AWAY
8-6
STL
Retrosheet archiveComplete through 2025

Cleveland Guardians vs St. Louis Cardinals all-time record, 1997 to 2025

Explore how this matchup changed by decade, where each lineup produced its runs, and the games that pushed the rivalry record book. This archive is a separate source window from the current-feed sections above, which start in 2002.

Games
42
Peak inning
1
Record game
17 runs
Two source windows. Current-feed sections: 34 games from 2006 to 2026. History Lab: 42 Retrosheet games from 1997 to 2025. The first refreshes with current finals; Retrosheet's published archive currently ends in 2025.Small historical sample: 42 games. Era and inning rates describe these meetings, but should not be treated as a forecast.

Decade balance

Select an era to inspect pace, scoring and attendance.

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Open source archive

Betting Context

Betting context since 2002

How this pairing has settled: run margins, totals and break-even prices derived from its historical record. These are final-score frequencies, not results against a closing line. We do not hold historical sportsbook prices for these games.

Small sample: 34 decided meetings, under the 50 we treat as the floor for a stable rate. Read the figures below as description, not a forecast. Interleague pairs meet in short bursts, so a single series can move any percentage here by several points.

One-run games
26.5%

Share of the 34 decided meetings settled by exactly one run.

Won by 2 or more
73.5%

A 2+ run margin crosses 1.5, but this is not a historical line result. Average gap: 3.7.

Average total
7.5runs

Final-score average without accounting for park, bullpen or weather.

Home side wins
47.1%

Share of decided meetings won by the listed home team.

Totals ladder

Where the combined score landed against the half-run lines a book normally posts. Half runs cannot push, so every meeting falls on one side.

LineOverUnderOver rate
7.5Closest to even1618
47.1%
8.51420
41.2%
9.51123
32.4%

Fair price from the base rate

The decimal price that corresponds exactly to each club's win share in this archive. It describes the record and does not estimate the next game.

St. Louis Cardinals
18 W · 52.9%1.89
Cleveland Guardians
16 W · 47.1%2.13

A base rate is not a forecast. Starting pitchers, lineups, injuries and venue all matter more to a single game than a multi-season head-to-head record.

Last 20 meetings vs full history

One-run games
35%vs 26.5% full archive
+8.5% in the last 20
Won by 2 or more
65%vs 73.5% full archive
-8.5% in the last 20
Average total
8.3 runsvs 7.5 runs full archive
+0.8 runs in the last 20

Seasons 2018 to 2026. The comparison shows whether the last 20 final scores differ from the longer archive, without assigning a cause or predicting what comes next.

View the break-even percentages in another odds format with the odds converter, or compare current prices for Cardinals and Guardians in the oddsmatcher.

Questions about this record: Cleveland Guardians vs St. Louis Cardinals

How do recent Cleveland Guardians vs St. Louis Cardinals results compare with the complete record?

St. Louis Cardinals have won 7 of the latest 10 decided meetings. Cleveland Guardians lead the decided record 24-21. The recent window is a subset of the complete series from 1997 through 2026, so the page reports the two separately.

When did the Cleveland Guardians and St. Louis Cardinals first play each other?

The Retrosheet archive's first recorded meeting for this pairing is Jun 14, 1997, when Cleveland Guardians won 8-3 away to St. Louis Cardinals. The archive covers 42 meetings from 1997 through 2025. The current feed starts in 2002 and is reported separately.

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Methodology & Data Sources

Current MLB game logs come from the balldontlie API and cover the 2002 season onward. Scores and schedule anomalies are checked against the official MLB Stats API. Spring training is excluded, while results from earlier franchise identities are merged into the current club.

The all-time record and the History Lab use Retrosheet game logs through 2025, with inning lines, team totals, attendance, duration and ballpark fields when available. Final games after 2025 come from the current feed, and every section built on that feed alone is labeled as starting in 2002.

The betting context summarizes completed final scores only. It contains no sportsbook closing lines and summarizes only completed games. Report a possible error through our contact page with the matchup and game date.

Read the full H2H data methodology →

Last updated Sources: balldontlie, MLB Stats API, Retrosheet

Cleveland Guardians and St. Louis Cardinals have met 34 times in this archive, which covers the 2006 season onward.