How do you determine a winning pitcher in baseball?
Question:How do you determine a winning pitcher? I had thought that an order to get a win, you had to pitch at least half of the game but George Sherrill took the win in the NY/Seattle game last night by only pitching one inning....?
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For a starting pitcher, you have to pitch at least five innings and leave while your team has the lead. If the game is tied up, the starting pitcher gets a no-decision.For a relief picther, who ever was last on the mound when a team's offense scores the go-ahead run gets the win.
So, when Sherrill got the win in the Yanks/Mariners game, it's because he was the last person to pitch for the Mariners when they scored the winning run in the 9th inning. If the Mariners had scored two runs in the 8th inning, Reitsma would have gotten the win because he was the last pitcher before the 8th inning.
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The pitcher who gets the team with the lead past the 5th inning.What is the best baseball game out there?
If you have the lead in the fifth inning, you get the victory. However, if someone blows it for you in a later inning, the pitcher who pitches in the inning in which the lead was taken, that pitcher gets the wI know Kevin Costner is a big baseball fan. But, does anyone know what his favorite team is?
If your starter goes out there and pitches 5 innings and has a 6-1 lead and the game finishes 6-5 hewill get the win. If he pitches those 5 innings and leaves at 6-1 but the other team scores 5 to tie it at 6-6 he will not get the win. After 5 innings whoever the pitcher is that gets the lead ex. 7-6 and the team wins without the score being tied again will win. It get's kind of confusing sometimes with all the lead changes. Even if the pitcher pitches an out and the team takes the lead while he is still considered the pitcher on the mound he will get the win.Derek Jetter, ANOTHER ERROR TODAY ?
Only the starter has to pitch 5 innings to earn the win. If a pitcher comes in later, that rule does not apply. The winning pitcher is determined by which pitchers are currently the pitchers of record when the last tie of the game is broken.Example 1:
Pitcher A starts the game and pitches for 6 innings. When he is relieved for a new pitcher at the top of the 7th, his team is up 5-1. The final score is 5-3. Since the score was never tied again, Pitcher A gets credit for the win.
Example 2:
Pitcher B comes in during the top of the 8th inning during a 3-3 tie. He gets the final two outs for his team. During the bottom of the 8th, his team breaks the tie and goes ahead 5-3. Pitcher C is brought on to pitch the top of the ninth. The final score is 5-3. Since Pitcher B was still the pitcher of record (he hadn't been replaced yet) when the 3-3 tie is broken, he is awarded the win despite only pitching 2/3 of an inning.
NOTE: This is how "No Decisions" occur, if a tie occurs after the pitcher is removed from the game and is replaced, they are no longer the pitcher of record, and they cannot recieve either a win or a loss.
If a starting pitcher completes 5 innings and leaves with the lead intact, and his team never relinquishes that lead, he is the winner. If he departs just before he completes 5 innings, the pitcher who replaces him is the winner, even if he threw only one pitch. However, let's say the starter leaves with the lead but the game eventually gets tied up or his team starts to lose. In that case, he has no decision. Whoever was on the mound last before the team came back to re-take the lead is the winning pitcher assuming the lead holds up through the end of the game. There is a caveat to this rule, however. In the MLB's judgement, they can award a win to the pitcher who pitched the best, in their opinion, if there were multiple pitchers pitching when the lead changed. But no starter can ever be the winning pitcher if he doesn't complete 5 innings from teh start of the game. A reliever, however, can earn a victory by throwing only one pitch theoretically.
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