How do you determine the winning/lossing pitcher in a baseball game?

Question

Sometimes it seems like someone will pitch 6 or 7 innings and doesn't get the win/loss. Then you'll have a guy who pitches only 1 or 2 innings and will get the win/loss. How do they determine who gets what?

Answer 1

a starting pitcher has to last 5 innings to get credit for a win. If they let up more runs then their opponent early, they get the L anyway. If a pitcher leaves the top of an inning tied, but their team scores, that pitcher gets the W. It matters who is in the game when the winning run is scored.

Answer 2

A starting pitcher can only get the win by 1. pitching at least 5 full innings; 2. His team must have the lead when he leaves and never relinquish the lead. If the game is ever tied after the starting pitcher leaves, he can no longer be the winning pitcher.

A starting pitcher will get the loss if he leaves the game when his team is losing and the game is never tied nor his team takes the lead. There is no innings pitched requirement for the losing pitcher; a pitcher can lose without recording a single out.

A relief pitcher gets the win if his team takes the lead while he is pitching. If a pitcher enters the game in a Save situation, blows the save by giving up the lead, and then his team retakes the lead while he is still in the game he would get the win. Not exactly fair to the starting pitcher, but life is not always fair.

On the occasion that a starting pitcher leaves the game with the lead but through injury or ineffectiveness he cannot get the win. If the lead is never lost, the official scorer will determine which relief pitcher (if there are more than one) pitched most effectively and will award the win to that pitcher.

Answer 3

Baseball Winning Pitcher

Answer 4

Winning pitcher must leave the game with the lead in the score and have pitch five innings. Losing pitcher would be the pitcher who gave up the run that lost the game. Really is about who is pitcher of record when winning run is scored

Answer 5

WINNING AND LOSING PITCHER
10.19
(a) Credit the starting pitcher with a game won only if he has pitched at least five complete innings and his team not only is in the lead when he is replaced but remains in the lead the remainder of the game.
(b)The “must pitch five complete innings” rule in respect to the starting pitcher shall be in effect for all games of six or more innings. In a five-inning game, credit the starting pitcher with a game won if he has pitched at least four complete innings and his team not only is in the lead when he is replaced but remains in the lead the remainder of the game.
(c)When the starting pitcher cannot be credited with the victory because of the provisions of 10.19(a) or (b) and more than one relief pitcher is used, the victory shall be awarded on the following basis:
(1) When, during the tenure of the starting pitcher, the winning team assumes the lead and maintains it to the finish of the game, credit the victory to the relief pitcher judged by the scorer to have been the most effective;
(2) Whenever the score is tied the game becomes a new contest insofar as the winning and losing pitcher is concerned;
(3) Once the opposing team assumes the lead all pitchers who have pitched up to that point are excluded from being credited with the victory except that if the pitcher against whose pitching the opposing team gained the lead continues to pitch until his team regains the lead, which it holds to the finish of the game, that pitcher shall be the winning pitcher;
(4) The winning relief pitcher shall be the one who is the pitcher of record when his team assumes the lead and maintains it to the finish of the game. EXCEPTION: Do not credit a victory to a relief pitcher who is ineffective in a brief appearance, when a succeeding relief pitcher pitches effectively in helping his team maintain the lead. In such cases, credit the succeeding relief pitcher with the victory.
(d) When a pitcher is removed for a substitute batter or substitute runner, all runs scored by his team during the inning in which he is removed shall be credited to his benefit in determining the pitcher of record when his team assumes the lead.
(e) Regardless of how many innings the first pitcher has pitched, he shall be charged with the loss of the game if he is replaced when his team is behind in the score, or falls behind because of runs charged to him after he is replaced, and his team thereafter fails either to tie the score or gain the lead.
(f) No pitcher shall be credited with pitching a shutout unless he pitches the complete game, or unless he enters the game with none out before the opposing team has scored in the first inning, puts out the side without a run scoring and pitches all the rest of the game. When two or more pitchers combine to pitch a shutout a notation to that effect should be included in the league’s official pitching records.
(g) In some non-championship games (such as the Major League All- Star Game) it is provided in advance that each pitcher shall work a stated number of innings, usually two or three. In such games, it is customary to credit the victory to the pitcher of record, whether starter or reliever, when the winning team takes a lead which it maintains to the end of the game, unless such pitcher is knocked out after the winning team has a commanding lead, and the scorer believes a subsequent pitcher is entitled to credit for the victory.

Answer 6

The pitchers that are in when the winning run is scored. For a
starter to win he must pitch 4 full innings with the lead to get credit. If game is tied then the pitchers who are pitching when the winning run scores gets win/loss.

Answer 7

"Randy Johnson (17-10) won his 0.33 immediately start up for the Yankees, allowing 5 runs and 9 hits in six innings. while he walked off the mound for the final time, massive apple trailed 5-2. ". on the time he develop into launched, massive apple develop into trailing. This seems to disagree with maximum solutions here. I easily have seen many different circumstances like this: "W" does no longer mean that a triumphing pitcher must be in the main effective place while he/she leaves. i could desire to be incorrect.." as a result, he could desire to have 'walked off the mound' having retired the section; the Yankees then scored 4 or extra interior of here 0.5-inning, and a reliever started the subsequent inning for the Yanks. He walked off the mound trailing 5-2, yet develop into nevertheless the "pitcher of checklist" while his team took the lead for stable.

Answer 8

Thank you everyone for the answers

Answer 9

I have no clue, but I am looking forward to the explanations to this question. Good one.

Answer 10

I doubt this is feasible