Assertion: pitcher | /r/CapableOf | enter the game
Facets:
value: in a situation
type: TEMPORAL
value: in an inning
type: TEMPORAL
value: with a lead
type: OTHER
value: in order to get a save
type: PURPOSE
value: for a team
type: PURPOSE
value: at anytime
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: A save is awarded to a pitcher who enters the game with the lead and completes the game without giving up the lead.
text: A blown save (abbreviated BSV, BS or B) is charged to a pitcher who enters a game in a situation which permits him to earn a save (a save situation or save opportunity), but who instead allows the tying run to score.
text: In contrast, a pitcher who enters the game after the first pitch of the game is a relief pitcher.
text: A pitcher who enters the game in a save situation and does not finish the game—but his team still leading—is not charged with a save opportunity.
text: In nearly half of their blown tough saves, they entered the game in the sixth or seventh inning.
text: For instance, if he enters the game with a lead too large for a save, he would not make himself eligible for a save by surrendering enough runs to contract the lead to within save range.
text: It must be a save situation when he enters the game, or he will not be able to earn one.
text: In order to get a save, a pitcher must enter the game when his team is leading.
text: If he enters the game in the ninth inning, the lead can be no larger than three runs.
text: He can also enter the game at anytime with the potential tying run either on base, at the plate, or on deck.
text: Baseball statistics sites such as Baseball-Reference.com and The Baseball Cube credit holds to players in games played before 1999 based on the record of the game situation when the pitcher entered and left the game.
text: A blown save (abbreviated BS) is charged to a pitcher who enters a game in a situation which permits him to earn a save (a 'save situation'), but who instead allows the tying run (and perhaps the go-ahead run) to score.
text: If a pitcher enters a game in a save situation (for a team leading by three runs or less) in an inning which is not the last (e.g. in a regulation 9-inning home game, pitching the top of the 8th), and his team later scores one or more run(s) to extend their lead beyond three runs, then as long as the same pitcher pitches until the end of the game, he is still credited with the save.
text: It is possible for a pitcher to enter a game, give up several hits and possibly even several runs, and be removed before achieving any outs, thereby recording a total of zero innings pitched.