Why is the finishing the 9th inning different for the pitcher than everyone else? 8 defenders are in the game to finish the ninth. As are the batter and any base runners. All are in the game to finish it as the winner. Yet only the pitcher gets a statistic for it. Bottom of the 9th inning game winning RBIs should be an equivalent stat. And what about a defensive metric for 9th inning putouts in the winning cause?
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