page_title: List of Major League Baseball annual wins leaders
section_title: National League
hierarchical_section_title: List of Major League Baseball annual wins leaders / National League
caption_attribution_description: English: Grover Cleveland Alexander, Philadelphia, NL (baseball) Notes: Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Alexander, Phila. Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
context_page_description: Major League Baseball recognizes the player or players in each league with the most wins each season. In baseball, wins are a statistic used to evaluate pitchers. Credit for a win is given by the official scorer to the pitcher whose team takes and maintains the lead while he is the pitcher of record. If a game is tied or if the lead changes to the other team, all pitchers who have participated and exited the game to that point are unable to receive credit for the victory. A starting pitcher is ineligible for the win if he has not completed five or more innings of the game; instead, the scorer would award the victory to the relief pitcher who was "most effective... in the official scorer's judgment".
caption: Grover Cleveland Alexander led the National League in wins six times in ten seasons.
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