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Oeditpus Rex

(42,473 posts) Wed Aug 27, 2025, 04:42 AM Yesterday

Figure out this one

Kershaw started for the Dodgers last night. He gave up a run in the first and nothing else, and left after five with LA leading 2-1.

Henriquez pitched the sixth and gave ip no runs. The Dodgers scored four in the bottom of the sixth to make it 6-1. Then Caspariangave up two runs in the seventh, so it's 6-3, and Cincinnati had scored more than the two runs LA had scored when Kershaw left.

Henriquez was the pitcher of record when the Dodgers scored the eventual winning runs in their four-run sixth. Yet, Kershaw was credited with the win.

The offical scorer can override the rules for which pitcher gets the win and which gets the loss. That's the only thing I can figure happened in this case.

(Studying the box score might help make this more clear, but MLB[dot]com has no way of sharing it.)

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Figure out this one (Original Post) Oeditpus Rex Yesterday OP

If a starter completes five innings JMCKUSICK Yesterday #1

I love the game, I love the rules. I hate MLB that slows down the game with commercials that timeout mid inning ... marble falls Yesterday #2

That isn't how I've always known it Oeditpus Rex Yesterday #3

my first sentence relied on no lead lost JMCKUSICK Yesterday #4

Okay... Oeditpus Rex Yesterday #5

lol I'm there with you Oeditpus Rex JMCKUSICK Yesterday #6

Yeah, but Oeditpus Rex 19 hrs ago #7

JMCKUSICK

(3,715 posts)

1. If a starter completes five innings

Reply to Oeditpus Rex (Original post)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 05:29 AM

Yesterday

And his team is ahead and doesn't lose the lead, he will get credited for the win.
Another quirk, if a relief pitcher pitches the last three innings of a game they win, even if they are ahead by ten runs, that pitcher will get a save.

marble falls

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2. I love the game, I love the rules. I hate MLB that slows down the game with commercials that timeout mid inning ...

Reply to JMCKUSICK (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 08:25 AM

Yesterday

... on TV and fills the break with inane frippery in the stadium, making an hour and a half game go three hours.

I watch my baseball at high schools, small college teams, industrial leagues, spring trainingg in Mesa, Az(when I get lucky enough to get a ticket), farm teams etc. There's some good ball in Omaha for the college world series. Women's fast pitch softball is exciting, too.

Oeditpus Rex

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3. That isn't how I've always known it

Reply to JMCKUSICK (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 02:37 PM

Yesterday

I don't know how many times I've seen a starter angry or disappointed (a canera typically cuts to them in the dugout) when they've thrown the required five or more and left with the lead, then watched a reliever either give up that lead or allow a tie, either way giving them a no-decision.