How do you blow a save?

[GoingUp]

I've always wondered how you blow a save in baseball. What do you have to do?

What is the definition of "saving" a game

 

[Anubis]

you come in to realive the pitcher, pitch like an inning when you have the lead, if you end up looseing you blew the save

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Anubis
you come in to realive the pitcher, pitch like an inning when you have the lead, if you end up looseing you blew the save

Something to that effect... and any runners that are on base when you start pitching belong to the pitcher before you.

 

[Blastomyces]

Ask Troy Percival, he's good at it.

 

[MacBaine]

Ask the Cubs, they're even better at it

 

[Kyle]

you can blow a save and still win...lets say its 3 to 2 in the ninth and u come in to save the game for the starter- if they score one run on you and tie it up- you blew the save. The starter (or who ever's decision it was) can no longer get the win.
Even if you win the game in extra innings, you still blew the save.
I think thats right

 

[Kyle]

DP

 

[bradruth]

It's a little more technical than that, but I'm not entirely sure about all the details.

What I gather is you have to come in with the number of outs you need equal to or less than the number of runs you are ahead by, unless there are runners on, which kinda complicates things.

Scenerio 1: If a pitcher comes in during the 9th with nobody out and his team is up by 3. He needs to get 3 outs, and thus face at least 3 batters to close the game. If he does so, he gets a save. If he gives up the lead, he gets a blown save.

Scenerio 2: If a pitcher comes in during the 9th with one out remaining, and the team is up by 3 with no runners on, then it's not a save opportunity. However, if he came in with 2 runners on base in the same situation, it would be a save opportunity.

 

[MacBaine]

WTF did you just quote your own post?

 

[Kyle]

damn it!
heh, was trying to edit

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: Kyle
damn it!
heh, was trying to edit

The hell you were...fess up!

 

[Kyle]

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Originally posted by: Kyle
damn it!
heh, was trying to edit

The hell you were...fess up!

ok ok, I'm tryin to hit 1000 posts before I hit 6 years...dont think it's gunna happen though

 

[Lager]

Blown save = Arthur Rhodes

 

[eber]

Saves:
Rule 10.20 in the Official Rule Book states:
Credit a pitcher with a save when he meets all three of the following conditions:
(1) He is the finishing pitcher in a game won by his club; and
(2) He is not the winning pitcher; and
(3) He qualifies under one of the following conditions:
- (a) He enters the game with a lead of no more than three runs and pitches for at least one inning; or
- (b) He enters the game, regardless of the count, with the potential tying run either on base, or at bat, or on deck (that is, the potential tying run is either already on base or is one of the first two batsmen he faces; or
- (c) He pitches effectively for at least three innings. No more than one save may be credited in each game.

If you allow the tying run to score, you've blown a save.