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Originally Posted by markf31
I've been trying to track down a game log, or list of games that are credited to Cy Young. Do you have a link showing that he was in fact the winning pitcher?
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https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1890/VCL401890.htm
Young made 16 starts and all 16 were complete games. You can see on there that Cleveland won 9, tied 1 and lost six. He recorded his other loss that season in his only relief outing. The game in question is Sept 18th, which is listed as an official game now, but wasn't official back then.
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Last edited by z28jd; 07-26-2018 at 08:25 AM.
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