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From: [email protected] (Russell Peltz)
Subject: Re: How does a pitcher get a save?
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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In article [email protected] writes:
>[email protected] writes:
>For the record, there are two ways that a reliever can get a save:
>He must finish the game and either
>1. have entered the game with the tying run on base, at bat, or on deck.
>2. have pitched at least three innings effectively.
>A pitcher may not get a win and a save in the same game.
>
Close, but there's a number 3 also:
3. have entered the game with no more than a 3 run lead and pitched
at least one inning.
If a pitcher finishes a game which his team has won, does not get the win,
and satisfies at least one of the three requirements, he gets a save.
-Rusty
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