With the help of Tom Orf, let’s put that walk-off into Cardinals historical context.

While the walk-off is the most exciting of game-ending hits, it is just one of three related flavors of last at-bat winning hits. As the table below indicates, a road club can also collect a game-winning hit in their last at-bat in the top of the final inning. Finally, a home team can score in their last at-bat in the bottom of the eighth to secure a win.

No matter which of the game-enders interest you, the data is below. The subset of each kind of game-ending hits which were home runs are broken out separately.

When considering the long franchise history of the Cardinals, it is not surprising that Stan Musial leads in two of the three types of last at-bat winning hits. However, Pujols is rapidly moving up the ranks, already leading the Cardinals in eighth-inning last at-bat winning hits.

Last at-bat game-winning hits – Cardinals history

	Walkoff	Road	Home 8th	All
	HR-Total	HR-Total	HR-Total	HR-Total
Stan Musial	12-21	8-23	3-4	23-48
Lou Brock	3-12	5-11	1-6	9-29
Albert Pujols	7-11	6-7	6-10	19-28
Ted Simmons	1-8	4-14	1-4	6-26
Ken Boyer	5-13	5-9	0-3	10-25
Enos Slaughter	3-12	1-3	4-8	8-23
Joe Medwick	3-9	1-6	3-6	7-21
Ozzie Smith	1-7	0-9	0-4	1-20
Curt Flood	2-10	3-5	0-4	5-19
Red Schoendienst	0-9	0-7	0-3	0-19
Terry Moore	2-9	2-7	0-1	4-17
Tom Herr	2-9	1-6	0-2	3-17
Ray Lankford	3-9	3-7	0-1	6-17
Tim McCarver	1-9	1-4	2-3	4-16
Willie McGee	2-9	0-7	0-0	2-16
Tom Pagnozzi	3-10	1-5	0-1	3-16
Ken Reitz	1-6	3-8	0-2	4-16
Pepper Martin	3-9	1-3	0-2	4-14
Joe Cunningham	2-6	1-5	1-3	4-14
Brian Jordan	1-4	2-4	2-6	5-14
Terry Pendleton	0-4	0-5	1-5	1-14
Mike Shannon	0-5	1-7	1-2	2-14