Thank you for providing a pleasant diversion. The video tied into the biggest its of every month of the 60s and it was a wonderful stroll down memory lane. I can't believe I remembered all but one of the 120 songs. But that one was preceded and followed by super memorable ones.
There are some arcane rules in baseball statistics which usually derive from people fussing about who to credit in situations which are less than obvious. Things like the 5 inning rule for a starter to win and within three runs for Hold or Save opportunities. These hard rules allow something like a Starter to pitch to a 10 run lead into the 5th, get pulled, and a reliever makes one pitch to end the inning. The reliever gets the WIN.
I understand the bigger lead syndrome where their focus is not to walk anyone so they may be hitting more of the strike zone than they usually would, but to expectedly come into a tie game, they have a different mind set?
Like I said, I don't get it either. 1 on, 2 on in the 8th? 1 on whaterver on in the 9th? What's the difference...outside of how you warm up, how fast, mental state, etc....I don't know.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2008/official_rules/10_the_official_scorer.pdf 10.17b1 - 5 inning rule for SP (only exceptions are for abbreviated games) These rules were made in response to scoring differences between scorers. What did I say that was wrong? Now 10 runs is just an outrageous application of the rules for purposes of showing haw absurd they can be. Saves 10.19d1 - No more than 3 runs... Holds are not actually official stats (or at least were not in the rules at the time of the Rules listed.) But the shorthand version is that you enter the game in which you would qualify for a Save if you completed the game and never give up the lead. But it becomes a HOLD if you are pulled and maintain the lead. In this situation, a blown HOLD means you have given up the lead and scoring resets for purposes of winning and losing pitchers. It's like the game where our pitcher blew a save and also picked up a Win because the Stros regained the lead in their half of the inning.
Wrong on the save rule. You can enter the game to start the 7th inning with any number of run lead and as long as you pitch the final 3 innings, you get a save. One can also get a save with a 5 run lead if the bases are loaded when he comes in.
Maybe he meant 12? Not mathematically possible, but might be a closer prediction when all is said and done for the weekend.
