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Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date	Function

#9388	08/14/2014 6:07:14 pm
Butch Joined: 07/06/2014 Posts: 19 Inactive	How does the reliever (in this case W. Flowers) get credit for a win when he entered the game in the 5th with a 8-4 lead? The team never relinquished the lead the rest of the game. Seems M. Duncan should have been declared the game winner. http://brokenbat.org/game/1401169

#9389	08/14/2014 6:37:49 pm
Krakonico Joined: 01/04/2013 Posts: 312 Inactive	Duncan only pitched 4 innings, that's why he wasn't declared the winner. Quote from wikipedia: In Major League Baseball, the winning pitcher is defined as the pitcher who last pitched prior to the half-inning when the winning team took the lead for the last time. There are two exceptions to this rule. The more common exception is that a starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win (four innings for a game that lasted five innings on defense). If the starting pitcher fails to meet the innings requirement, the official scorer awards the win to the relief pitcher who, in the official scorer's judgment, was the most effective.

#9390	08/14/2014 6:42:00 pm
Butch Joined: 07/06/2014 Posts: 19 Inactive	Krakonico Thank you for the clear explanation. Best of luck with your team this season.