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Loss or No Decision?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:33 am
by KristinaKB
Full 7 inning softball game. In bottom of an inning (4th I think - book isn't in front of me), starting pitcher leaves game injured, with game tied at 1-1, and one on base with one out. Serveral runs score in the remainder of the inning, and team goes on to lose. Is that a loss for the starting pitcher, since the runner left on was the go ahead run? Or a no decision since the game was tied?

Re: Loss or No Decision?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:06 pm
by KCunningham
Loss

Re: Loss or No Decision?

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 6:42 am
by mprusak
Yep, pitcher is responsible for runners he left on base.

Re: Loss or No Decision?

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:30 pm
by OhioTex
agreed

Re: Loss or No Decision?

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:22 pm
by grstatdoc
Agreed as well, even though it's a bad break for the starter to get charged with the loss for yielding run #2 and the successors allow even more runs.

Re: Loss or No Decision?

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 3:38 pm
by Rhc
This rule has changed several times in baseball. Walter Johnson lost a win streak due to the old version of this rule if I remember correctly, getting a loss due to an inherited runner.