A pitcher pitching a complete game and losing that same game
EX: If a pitcher has given up 8 runs in 8 innings and is losing 8-2 and the manager leaves him in for the 9th inning, and the pitcher completes the game
2006-08-31 11:05:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
This used to happen a lot more back when pitchers pitched the whole game. Harvey Haddix pitched 12 no-hit innings in 1959 only to lose the game in the 13th. Now there just aren't as many pitchers pitching complete games. Since you specified "in MLB history..." the answer to your question would be a very large number, because for most of baseball history complete games were not that unusual, therefore many of a pitcher's losses would have been complete game losses.
To get an idea of how common this used to be, look at the stats of the all-time leading loser (also the all-time leading winner), Cy Young. He pitched in 906 games, started 815, and completed 749 of them (http://www.baseball-reference.com/y/youngcy01.shtml). Therefore he completed 83% of the games he appeared in. He lost 316 of those games. If he completed the same percentage of his lost games that would mean he had 261 complete game losses. Even if the percentage of completed losses was lower, it couldn't have been much lower because he just didn't pitch that many games that he didn't complete!
By the way, major league baseball has a statistical category for this, called "complete game losses," or "CGL," which has only been tracked since the 1960s. In the early years of baseball this stat wouldn't have had much significance since complete games were so commonplace.
2006-08-31 11:12:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that happens all the time, a pitcher pitches a complete game giving up 1 or 2 runs and losing 1-0, or 2-0
2006-08-31 18:08:40 · answer #2 · answered by K-Ho 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To find the last time this happened, you have to go all the way back to......Saturday. Roy Halladay went the distance in a 2-0 loss to the Royals.
Seriously, this happens all the time. Of course, it's not as common an occurrence as it once was, simply because pitchers dont' throw as many complete games as they once did.
2006-08-31 18:34:59 · answer #3 · answered by Craig S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
none that I can remember. I can't see why a coach would leave a pitcher in a complete game when he is losing or winning unless the teams bullpen is depleted or he is pitching a no hitter or his pitch count is low, whatever...
2006-08-31 18:16:35 · answer #4 · answered by MR. duckduckduckduckgoose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all the time
2006-09-01 00:36:14 · answer #5 · answered by zoch13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too many times to recount.
2006-08-31 18:08:48 · answer #6 · answered by ElOsoBravo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that it's happened to Randy Johnson, but I don't know how many other times.
2006-08-31 18:09:20 · answer #7 · answered by dj1973 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not too uncommon
i'm pretty sure it happened at least once this year, possibly two or three
2006-08-31 18:09:38 · answer #8 · answered by dewgongoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Randy Johnson has done it twice this year, its not that rare
2006-08-31 18:29:05 · answer #9 · answered by Andrew B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THAT HAPPEN ALOTS GIVE UP ONE OR TWO RUNS AND YOUR TEAM CAN'T SCORE.:-)
2006-08-31 18:15:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋