Thread: Poll: is Mariano Rivera one of the top 10 pitchers of all time?
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Old 01-24-2019, 03:56 PM
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Or you could have saved him for the last strike. Lights out!!
Good point, but if a pitcher is replaced while facing a batter due to injury or whatever, the count determines which pitcher gets the credit for the batter. If the batter has two strikes when the new pitcher enters the game, I believe the first pitcher gets credit for a strikeout.

So using this strategy Rivera could have saved 1500 games, with no strike outs and no innings pitched. Assuming a foul ball here and there his average pitch count would be 1.083.

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